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English words with letters in alphabetical order

On: Unix Dict/grep Solves Left-Side-of-Keyboard Puzzle

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