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+              WHY ARE THESE WORD LISTS DIFFERENT FROM OTHER LISTS?\r
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+Alan Beale painstakingly compiled the word lists in this package based on\r
+the appearance of words in standard dictionaries. This would appear to be\r
+similar to the work of Official Word List Committee (the one affiliated\r
+with a certain anagramming board game players association and a certain\r
+large toy corporation). The difference is that Alan documented his work,\r
+and the documentation is here for all to see. His lucid documentation is,\r
+in many ways, more interesting than the word lists themselves.\r
+\r
+Anagramming can be a addictive activity. Yet, what brings it truly alive\r
+is a passion for language, for the words themselves, for their meaning and\r
+derivation, for their essence. As a purely mechanical exercise in letter\r
+permutation, anagramming reduces to a dry-as-dust intellectual exercise,\r
+and one in which brute-force computer algorithms are superior to even\r
+the most talented humans. This is why it's so important to dig beneath\r
+the superficial letter patterns, and why a printed unannotated list\r
+(even with "official" imprimatur) is, at best, a tool with a dull edge.\r
+\r
+Hence, these lists.\r
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+\r
+Mendel Cooper\r