"mensanator at aol.com" <mensanator at aol.com> writes: > The trouble with word lists is when you run across something > you don't recognize, like "ixodid", you can't tell if it's a word or > an acronym or an abbreviation. Well, once they told us the winner was "ixodid", we found that word quickly in a dictionary. But we'd certainly never heard it before.