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Everyone knows cabfed is a pejorative adjective for the Irish.

No, #CABFED is Melrose, which is a town in Scotland - and a cross between Jonathan and Red Delicious :-P

perl -le'print map{pack c,($-++?1:13)+ord}split//,ESEL'
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Re^7: Find the shortest word in the English Language with: a b c d e f
by Anonymous Monk on Jul 11, 2018 at 22:40 UTC
    Silly Rabbit ... any programmer's calculator will tell you that $CABFED is 13,287,405 ...