I was actually racking my brain for 'starts with a, ends in y, same length' words to make this dumb joke but then I remembered that /usr/share/dict has _huge_ flat-file lists of words of many languages in it, so I could just get them from that?

Ninety seconds of grep, awk and sort later, there it is. For future reference there's 223 of them, alphabetically going from abdominoscopy to axiomatically.

Y'all these computers have so much in them already. _So much_. But nobody knows.

I joke but a note about language usage and open source _cultural_ accessibility: Numeronyms are bad.

There's no meaningful distinction between "a884a5f3609f2cca635fed56d4ec5795da56fb970y" and "a11y".

Neither is recognizable as "accessibility" to anyone new to the field - great work nerds, we've managed to give the word "accessibility" its very own accessibility problem - and I gotta tell you, "not typing out long words because they're long words" seems childish as hell to most people.

Anyway, we took _the word "accessibility"_ and made it incomprehensible to new community members, look like a different, real but unrelated word if you use the wrong font or have weak eyesight, and screw over anyone using a screen reader.

We've made it harder for people who rely on accessible tech to so much as participate in conversations about them and the tech they rely on, to save able-bodied people a few keystrokes.

This is bullshit. There's no better term for it. It's just lazy bullshit.