Silly word games
18 May 2006


I hope I'm not speaking out of turn, but 'Eanes' is a rare and unusual surname. Pronounced 'een-s', it belongs to one of my co-workers. Yesterday, by chance, she remarked that being called 'Smither' might be interesting.

Rule #1: Don't inspire a geek with more important work to do :)

For the last day, my brain's background processing sub-routine has been thinking of other silly christian names. The usual suspects, like Phillip, Amphetam and Trample was joined by the likes of Crustac, Vax, Byzant and Marquee De-Sade. (Think about them...)

She then pointed me to morewords. It's nothing you can't do with egrep (blog passim) but a useful link nonetheless if you're into wordplay.

I'll leave you to find the myriad of possibilities we came up with.