How often have you asked yourself: Is there some silly word that shares letters with most of the names of the states of the US?

mackerel.rb

states = %w(Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado
Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa
Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota
Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada NewHampshire NewJersey
NewMexico NewYork NorthCarolina NorthDakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon
Pennsylvania RhodeIsland SouthCarolina SouthDakota Tennessee Texas Utah
Vermont Virginia Washington WestVirginia Wisconsin Wyoming)

ARGV.each do |word|
  states.each do |state| 
    if not /[#{Regexp.quote(state.downcase)}]/ =~ word.downcase then
      puts word + " is not in: " + state
    end
  end
end

# Small Ruby solution for the question: 
# What is a word that shares letters with a very large amount of US states?
# ex. mackerel shares no letters only with Ohio
# by boxmein 2013. Use freely.

# Usage: mackerel.rb <words...>