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Doh! That'll teach me to read further ahead.
Any hints as to what the words are? A quickly improvised perl anagram program run over a scrabble dictionary only came up with 'fringed' for the last entry, but that violates the rule for leaving the first and last letters in place.
That story is probably "I Always Do What Teddy Says", by Harry Harrison, reprinted in many collections and anothologies.
This MIT article has a photo of McLurkin and the robots
Doh! That'll teach me to read further ahead.
Any hints as to what the words are? A quickly improvised perl anagram program run over a scrabble dictionary only came up with 'fringed' for the last entry, but that violates the rule for leaving the first and last letters in place.
That story is probably "I Always Do What Teddy Says", by Harry Harrison, reprinted in many collections and anothologies.
This MIT article has a photo of McLurkin and the robots