Thursday, October 26, 2006

Childrens Laughter

So, someone was telling me about PenisLand the other day. Actually, they were telling me about PenIsland, a company that makes custom pens. When they registered their name online, they chose penisland.org (which is odd, because penisland.com is a gay porn site (imagine that), so they might have tried it, saw it was taken, then went for .org anyway). It got me to thinking: ChildrensLaughter. Someone with a Palm tried out ChildrenSlaught.com, and found that someone start the site as a place to help children, because there is nothing more beautiful to the ears than the sound of Childrenslaughter. I guess he never really looked at it that way, which is kind of funny. "You can't spell slaughter without laughter," as mom used to always say.

This also led me to two further ones: ChildsCare and of course for Halloween, ChildrenScream. So, the question I planned on answering with a quick program was: how many words in the the English language begin with S but are also words without that S. That way there could be no end to the fun with Childrens! (or Clowns if one is sensitive about the word children)

Sure, this S thing wouldn't catch Penisland, so I wonder is there a more general list of words, two words that when sandwiched together can be split differently to for two different words, with what I hope are very different meanings. ChildrensLaughter had some of us almost rolling on the floor, so there must be a better one out there! And is there an English word for the combining/spliting concept (like anagram is for randomizing)?

The Edward

4 comments:

Aravind Krishnaswamy said...

Fascinating... sounds like someone's got some code to write this weekend...

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The Edward said...

Good one. Thanks.