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1:51pm, Friday 12 January 2007 (Updated 1:57pm, Friday 12 January 2007)

How many English words are there which are anagrams of their ROT13'ed versions? e.g. bought ROT13'ed is obhtug.

Update: Hah. Someone else has already done it. Searching 56648 words from /usr/share/dict/words, there are 38 ROT13-anagrams: an, averting, baboon, boob, bore, bought, earn, earner, fan's, fans, fiver's, flyer's, flyers, garnet, gnat, lyre, naiver, near, nearer, nearly, paunch, prance, ravine, re, ref's, refers, refs, regret, rely, rive, robe, tang, thug, uh, vain, vainer, vainly, verier.

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