Are there any (and how many) words that begin with "M"...

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Are there any (and how many) words that begin with “M” that if you drop the M leave you with another word?

for example bear (b)ear?

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Mark -> ark?

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Well, I would have thought (m)other was the ost mobvious one…

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Man -> an

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(m)ire
(m)end
(m)ilk
(m)ask

I feel like I’m playing Boggle.

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(m)ilk
(m)ace
(m)arrow
(m)ale
(m)at
(M)andy

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meat
mow
more
max
mare

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Mage
Moats
Mover
Mink
Mumps

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manger
mink
muse
manimal titter
march
mall
mmbop graak

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M/aster
M/arch
M/all, M/ill
M/utter
M/old

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m-ill
m-alter
m-inter
m-ale
m-ember
m-ere

hey i`m scoring high!

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I just fiddled about with the word list for spell on this machine (mks toolkit version):

grep “^m” words | cut -c2- >w.tmp
spell w.tmp >w2.tmp
diff w.tmp w2.tmp >w3.tmp
edit w3.tmp into a list.

I now have a list of 153 of them, but I’m cheating, and some are sort of obscure. Just so you guys know what you’ve got to shoot for.

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Eh?

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I can’t believe no one’s pointed out the one in the OP:

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Mmmmmm.

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Assuming you’re refering to yabob’s post, what he said means:

He searched throught a list of words (in a file called “words”) searching for the ones starting with “m”, cut off the “m” and put the results into a file called w.tmp

Then he did a spell check on this file and all the mispelled words were put into a file called w2.tmp

Then he put the difference between the two files into a third file (obviously this just leaves the correctly spelt words) called w3.tmp

…and he says there were 153 words in this file, so 153 words beginning with “m” can have it removed and they still go through the spell checker as valid words.

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Yeah. I figured people not conversant with UNIX utilities would get the gist that I fiddled with the word list for a speller program.

Thinking about it, it would have been easier to do it like this:

grep “^m” words | cut -c2- >w.tmp
comm ? words w.tmp

Trouble is, I can never remember the column number options I want for “comm” (where the ? is) and I’d have to look them up.

The ancient version of mks I’m running on PC’s is good for this because their implementation of “spell” isn’t clever about stemming - it just relies on the brute force technique of having all the various word endings in their list.

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BTW, that relies on the fact that the word list is sorted. You could sort to be on the safe side.

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mop.

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mad, madder, madding, madman, mae, mag, mage, magnate, maid, mail, mailer, maim, main, mair, malar, male, malign, mall, malt, mamie, man, mane, mangel, manger, mangle, mangler, manna, mantic, many, mar, marc, mare, margent, mark, marrow, marrowy, marse, mart, mascot, mask, masker…

That’s more than 40, and most have plurals too. I suspect there are more than 153 words. Do you REALLY need to know this, or are you justing being a mass?