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Rearrange the letters of NEW DOOR to form one word.

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Problem

Rearrange the letters of NEW DOOR to form one word.
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The solution is ONE WORD.  This is a play on words of course; the
phrase is actually composed of two words.  However, Dmitri Borgmann
mentions an answer that I think is much better.  Do you know it?

NEW DOOR can be anagrammed to form WOORDEN.  This is one word, but it
is in Dutch.  Nobody said that the one word had to be in English, right?

But there's one interesting tidbit.  If you know Dutch, then you know
that WOORDEN is not one word.  Why?  Because it means "words" in
English!

-- Wei-Hwa Huang <whuang@cco.caltech.edu>