Comment English words with letters in alphabetical order (Score 1) 423
My daughter wanted to find English words containing letters in an alphetical order such as "biopsy" (monotonically increasing sequence of letters) and I thought she would be impressed if I showed her the UNIX solution using grep. Unfortunately it only confirmed her opinion of me as a nerd - see http://palamau.blogspot.com/2006/05/words-containing-letters-in.html