What's a word?

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Using rules 2 and 6, any subword of a word is a word as long as it satisfies 
rules 3-5.

Then, in the all-letter string:

"rthiusoshysegfergzpzbhoimj"

(randomly keyboard-generated) the following are words:

rthiusoshysegfergzpz
thiusoshysegfergzpzb
hiusoshysegfergzpzbh

etc, as well as any 1-19 character substrings of them.

I'd suggest changing rule 2 like this, for clarification:
"A word is defined as a maxiimal (or, synonymously, greedy) string of adjacent 
characters composed entirely ... " (rest unchanged)

And rolling back on the recent addition in rule 1, which doesn't seem quite 
natural (see my previous post).


CChris

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