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- noun Plural form of
transposal .
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The longest transposals look rather boring, since they are all minor variations: congregationalists congregationalists congregationalist congregationalist algorithmically logarithmically representatives representatives congregational congregational establishments establishments egocentrically geocentrically certifications rectifications consolidations disconsolation conservatoires conservatories
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The well-mixed transposals can be found by having Mathematica toss out the transposals that share too many short substrings.
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Recently, I used Mathematica to find well-mixed transposals among Wikipedia entries.
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With the above code, we can list the longest of the well-mixed transposals. antiparticles paternalistic conservatoire overreactions aristotelian retaliations obscurantist subtractions definability identifiably arthroscopes crapshooters colonialists oscillations enumerations mountaineers importunates permutations counterspies persecutions capillarity piratically animadverts maidservant calendering greenlandic grandnieces reascending coordinates decorations peripatetic precipitate crenelation intolerance arthroscope crapshooter peristaltic triplicates excitations intoxicates
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I have had him faithfully translated, and with some small omissions or abridgments, slight transposals here and there for clearness 'sake, and one or two elucidative patches, gathered from the three subsidiary Books already named, all duly distinguished from Saupe's text; — whereby the gap or deficit of pages is well filled up, almost of its own accord.
The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works Thomas Carlyle 1838
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