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After much research into the matter, the linguistics department of Mudumalai Institute of Technology (MIT) has published its defenitive and comprehensive lexicon for the seemingly random Verification Words used by various weblog sites and electronic mail service providers to make sure viruses and aliens do not leave spam in your blog and junk box. It appears that they are not in fact random groups of letters, but have their origin in the vocabulary of players of the obscure game Counter Strike and other such cultish internet phenomena. Here are a few excerpts:

eiioycc - What you say after a particularly bad joke emailed to you by the Hopeful Cynic. And to warn your friends, you forward it to them as well.

xkkzs - The name Michael Hutchence suggested for the band before INXS hit it big.

hzbsl - The Jewish wing of a dreaded Palestinian militant group. Hebrew has now vowels, you see.

cnlqzh - After much effort, the abbreviated postal code for the newest state in the US, inhabated solely by people who claim origins in a region in the south west of the Indian subcontinent. To explain, as AZ is to Arizona, and OH is to Ohio, so CNLQZH is to Chandiminningunnaquzha.

edtddhtm - Acronym among wannabe, chatroom infesting IT geeks working in Infosys for "Eda, dat thendi deleted da HyperText Markup!"

xfrdm - The spiritually harmless version of a backmasked cuss word in a Alice Cooper song.