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From: Leroy Quet <qqq...@mindspring.com>
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Subject: Re: Anagram -- Duplicating Letters
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:18:59 -0700 (PDT)
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Leroy Quet wrote:

> Take the letters ELS.
> With two E's, the letters can be arranged to spell ELSE.
> With two L's instead, the letters can be arranged to spell SELL.
> With two S's instead, the letters can be arranged to spell LESS.
>
> I am just curious, what is the longest sequence that someone can come
> up with of (not necessarily distinct) letters that an English word can
> be formed from if ANY letter of the sequence is doubled?


Without much thought I have upped the ante by 1 letter.

4 letter sequence, which also happens to be a word: LOPS
POLLS
POOLS
PLOPS
SLOPS

The lesson from this: Maybe a sequence can be extended by 1 letter by
including an S.
:)

Leroy