The following six groups of word each share similar (but not identical) word oddities.

GROUP 1          GROUP 2       GROUP 3
aftereffects     galahads      pepperroot
desegregated     hadassahs     proprietor
reverberates     alfalfas      torture

GROUP 4          GROUP 5       GROUP 6
authenticity     polonium      deeded
dismantle        homophony     mummy
endowment        nonillion     ceded

What is the oddity for each group of words?

(In reply to re: Solution - disabled by brianjn)

Okay, I forgot to further qualify...."for those with good joints or a secretary" using a QWERTY keyboard. 

For other keyboard layouts, many of the similarites are lost.  On the QWERTZ keyboards, the Z and Y are swapped, thus authenticity, homophony and mummy would fall out of their current groups.  On the AZERTY keyboards, mummy falls out of group 6 as the M is repositioned to use the right little finger instead of the right index finger; and, with the repositioning of the A, the words listed in group 2 (galahads, hadassahs, and alfalfas) no longer, solely, use the second row of letters.  On a DVORAK simplified keyboard,  deeded would be moved to group 2 and ceded would be moved to group 4 -- with ALL groups losing their given word lists. 

Posted by Dej Mar on 2007-11-12 09:27:42