The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #43236   Message #632202
Posted By: CapriUni
21-Jan-02 - 11:00 AM
Thread Name: BS: Anagrams of your name?
Subject: RE: BS: Anagrams of your name?
Comment on this whole thing in general:

Yes... but so many of the 'words' produced are really proper names (my last name is relatively common enough, it seems, for it to count as a 'word' -- one anagram that came up was simply last name first and first name last). My suspicion is that this generator simply looks for words copied out of a stored dictionary: obscure inventors, abreviations, and all.

What would happen if we applied the rules of Scrabble [tm] to this exercise (no words that are always spelled with a capital letter, and no abrevations))?

I know I'd get a shorter list, but one with a higher percentage of phrases that make sense.