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omegapsic puzzle (solution)

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J E H Shaw

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Jun 4, 1999, 3:00:00 AM6/4/99
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About 3 weeks ago I posed the following puzzle:

>How are a hare and a fowl similar, but different from a deer and an ape?

I didn't see any complete solution [NB. our news has been acting oddly].
Arranging the letters in reverse alphabetical order gives:

hare -> rhea
fowl -> wolf (i.e. animals again)

deer -> reed
ape -> pea (i.e. transformed to plants)

Well, I thought it was cute.
[The subject header gave a clue, omega & psi being the last 2 letters
of the Greek alphabet, i.e. "omegapsic" = opposite of "alphabetic"].

-- Ewart Shaw
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yacc - the piece of code that understandeth all parsing

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