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.
I was going to say bookkeepper for kk, but I don’t think it works…
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)
Bookkeeper is the only word in the English language with 3 consecutive double letters.
II = skiing
DAMN YOU!! That was my word! You totally read my mind. I love that word.
xx = sexxy. The extra x makes it more sexxy than the unsexy 1 ‘x’ version
treKKed
interesting post…
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.
Hawaii
Dokken
Soggy
One of our interns was named Ujjwal
An easier “aa” that doesn’t require explanation is aardvark.
the original spelling for hookah is huqqa
Tyler gets +3 points for including Dokken in a Mike D comment.
aussie-ankle-lavatory-car
bigger
radii
muumuu or vacuum
Also, on a related side note, Prof. Makhlouf M. Makhlouf, of WPI, was cited in a recent article about Prof’s with the same first and last names.
http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/research/story/0,,1859928,00.html
canadian-wrist-cabin-truck
What?
irish-elbow-cockpit-SUV
Yeah, I don’t know what’s going on here either. Patrick, what are these strange comments?
brit-knee-galley-van
(say it out loud, kiddos)
ugh. terrible.
terrible?
you’re terrible.
I get the last one, but the rest? Oh, ok. That’s weird.
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.
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).
*rolls eyes*
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.