Tey-Haas

For whatever reason, today I was thinking about words with double letters. I wondered how many double letter possibilities there are. Let’s give it a shot shall we? Proper nouns are a no-go as are expressions, conjectures, and foreign languages.

aa (cindery lava)
bubble
accent
fodder
meet
huff
kegger
hh?
ii?
jj?
kk?
holler
mammal
nanny
hoops
pineapple
qq – no way
porridge
sassy
attribute
uu?
savvy
ww?
xx – don’t believe so.
yy?
pizza.

27 thoughts on “Tey-Haas

  • 8/30/2006 at 10:28 pm
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    I was going to say bookkeepper for kk, but I don’t think it works…

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  • 8/31/2006 at 5:41 am
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    How about…

    HH, hitchhike and withhold

    UU, continuum and vacuum

    WW, bowwow, powwow, glowworm

    XX, waxxenn (old english form of the verb, to wax, to increase in size).

    YY, cubbyyew also called sergeant fish, and this probably doesn’t count but, snarleyyow (slang for dog)

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  • 8/31/2006 at 6:30 am
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    Bookkeeper is the only word in the English language with 3 consecutive double letters.

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  • 8/31/2006 at 6:39 am
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    DAMN YOU!! That was my word! You totally read my mind. I love that word.

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  • 8/31/2006 at 6:40 am
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    xx = sexxy. The extra x makes it more sexxy than the unsexy 1 ‘x’ version

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  • 8/31/2006 at 7:28 am
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    treKKed
    interesting post…

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  • 8/31/2006 at 8:54 am
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    I’m not sure kegger is a real word, so in case it isn’t, how about ziggurat? The internet tells me that an alternate spelling is ziqqurat, but that’s probably not English.

    Also, not English, but Hajj is the term for a pilgrimage to Mecca.

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  • 8/31/2006 at 11:03 am
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    Hawaii
    Dokken
    Soggy

    One of our interns was named Ujjwal

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  • 8/31/2006 at 12:13 pm
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    An easier “aa” that doesn’t require explanation is aardvark.

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  • 9/1/2006 at 1:50 pm
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    Yeah, I don’t know what’s going on here either. Patrick, what are these strange comments?

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  • 9/2/2006 at 9:54 am
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    I get the last one, but the rest? Oh, ok. That’s weird.

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  • 9/2/2006 at 1:28 pm
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    I looked over the whole list, and it seems the 0nly one that no one took a shot at was “WW”, so I spent some time searching.

    The only thing that I could find upon first inspection that was reMOTEly close was the adjective form of the noun(s) low water, which is low-water, but I feel that doesn’t really count.

    Another very interesting word (nothing to do with “WW”) is the Native American (Munsee Indian) word for yellow: Wiisaawii or the Naskapi Indian form Wiisaawaaw

    OOH OOH, in Powhatah Indian, the word for hear is “Nowwuntamen”
    That is as good as I think I can do.

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  • 9/2/2006 at 1:29 pm
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    Oops, I just saw bowwow, powwow and glowworm. I’m super dumb. I can admit it. Hrm, and that means what I just did was an INCREDIBLE waste of time (more so than I already thought).

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  • 9/8/2006 at 7:07 am
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    Quote: “Xiao Xiao is professor of molecular genetics and biochemistry and professor of pharmacology at the University of Pittsburgh school of medicine.”

    Google xiao xiao and you get awesomeness.

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