Wirt after Bruce:
> Bruce writes:
>
> > Wirt, who has outpaced everyone else on the list with his automated
> >  solution, needs a better dictionary.
>
> That's undoubtedly true. The dictionary is one of our own making. About 20
> years ago, we hired a bunch of high school kids to type in an abridged
> dictionary into an IMAGE database in order to support our System 2000 Word
> Processing Terminal. We chose an abridged dictionary of only 53,000 words
> simply because that was a large IMAGE database in those days.

You might then want to look at:

   http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/ilash/Moby/

G.