programming puzzles?

[mensanator at aol.com]

Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> mensanator at aol.com wrote:
>
> > The trouble with word lists is when you run across something
> > you don't recognize, like "ixodid", you can't tell if it's a word or
> > an acronym or an abbreviation. Being in the environmental
> > remediation business, I thought "dioxid" (which I assume is
> > related to "dioxin") to be more plausible as a word.
>
> isn't that spelled "dioxide" in english ?
>
> googling for "dioxid" brings up band homepages, obviously misspelled
> pages, and non-english pages (it's spelled dioxid in swedish, for example)
> -- and this page:
>
>     http://www.morewords.com/word/dioxid/
>
> which says that dioxid is a valid word, and tells me to click on a number
> of dictionary links to verify that.  those links all lead to "not found; per-
> haps you meant dioxide?" pages...

www.chemfinder.com is probably better place to look for chemistry
spellings than dictionaries and they don't list it either. But don't
ask
me how it made it's way onto the consolidated word list from
www.puzzlers.org.

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