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The process of finding film titles embedded in longer film titles and, similarly, finding book titles embedded in longer book titles can be extended to other groups of things. Let’s call this “Things Embedded In Similar Things”, or TEISTs, or maybe even ThEISTs. Here are some from other groups:

US states (these are easy!):

Kansas in Arkansas

Virginia in West Virginia

Countries:

Oman in Romania

Mali in Somalia

Niger in Nigeria

Sudan in South Sudan

Elements:

Erbium in terbium in ytterbium

Tin in astatine and platinum

Tin in actinium in protactinium

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True! And with relatively small sets, you don't necessarily need to futz around with Excel files! Though a laptop-lover like me will sometimes use them anyway, just to feel sure.

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