(In reply to
re(2): Hint by Penny)
Penny,
What makes a word "common"?
I see you included a capitalized word in your "uncommon but recognizable" list, so I assume you recognize capitalized words as valid for such a list. Would you then recognize a word like "Wicca" as common? "Yuma" is, I believe, more recognized as a place name, the city in Arizona, than the language of the Yuma Indians, so I can understand it might fall into your "2" list, yet, then "mecca", which is derived from its more recognizable place name "Mecca", fell in your "1" list, so I am left unsure how to classify it.
Other capitalized "backwords" of four or more letters that I had discovered are:
- Edda - old Norse Poems (edda is also a tuberous, starchy root);
- Roma - a member of a nomadic people originating in northern India;
- Sida - a large genus of subtropical shrubs or herbs;
- Solea - type genus of the Soleidae;
- Toda - a member of a pastoral people of southern India, or their Dravidian language;
- Tonga - the language of the Tonga people of south central Africa;
- Toona - a genus of the Austrailian redcedar and chinese cedar;
- Uria - a genus of seabirds in the auk family;
- Veda - ancient sacred writing of Hinduism; and
- Vedda - a member of the Sri Lankan aboriginal people
- Yucca - a genus of American lilaceous plants (yucca [lower case] also refers to any of the evergreen plants of this genus with tall, stout stems with a terminal cluster of white flowers)
Other uncapitalized "backwords" of four or more letters of the more "uncommon" nature are: romic, toea, tola, toma, utia, viga, xylic, yoni, yuca, yuts, zoea, zona, and zoon.
Edited on November 20, 2007, 11:18 pm
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Posted by Dej Mar
on 2007-11-20 23:13:04 |
re(3): Hint
