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0 pointsmahmud16y ago0 comments

The English language doesn't have a word with three or more repetitions of a letter. "LOOOL" and "mmmmmmuah" excepted.

0 pointsmahmud16y ago0 comments

The English language doesn't have a word with three or more repetitions of a letter. "LOOOL" and "mmmmmmuah" excepted.

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baddox16y ago· 2 in thread

hugh316y ago

VIII? That's not a word, it's a number.

Or, more accurately, it's a representation of a number using characters which happen to be letters of the alphabet.

baddox16y ago

Just as words are representations of ideas using characters which happen to be letters of the alphabet. This is all sarcasm, by the way.

jplewicke16y ago· 1 in thread

From /usr/share/dict/words on OSX, I get the following:

whenceeer (probable corruption of whenceever, and hence not legit)

wallless

bossship

demigoddessship

goddessship

headmistressship

patronessship

First one is probably a contraction missing the apostrophe: "whencee'er". But that doesn't explain why "wheree'er" doesn't show up.

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