And the tide rises, the tide falls.
Posted in Explaining on October 18th, 2004 by avi – 41 CommentsI wrote this program today to find what I’ve been calling “combo words”. Basically, you find one word that ends with a certain sequence of letters and then another word that begins with that same sequence of letters and it smushes them together into a fancy, new word. I’ve found that there are plenty of really dumb and boring examples of this, for example, “daydreaming” (daydream + dreaming). However, there are quite a few very amusing ones:
elephantoms
circumspectroscopy
bittersweetener
floundertaking
transpacification
permissionary
benedictionaries
etc, etc. Come up with your own! It’s fun! You can also run my program to get a big list and cheat, like me.
