Using your script Jeremy,  my dictionary (Solaris 5.8) came up with one
that I like

Ogres->Ogress

:-)

--Mark

On Wednesday, September 08, 2004 4:17 PM, Jeremy Muhlich wrote:
>grep 'ss$' /usr/share/dict/words | sed -e s/ss// | \
>  cat - /usr/share/dict/words | sort | uniq -c | grep ' 2'

>That returned 10 words from Fedora Core 2's version of words, and the
>answer was readily apparent.

>I also noticed bras->brass, a (weak) example of the converse
>transformation.  :)


> -- Jeremy

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