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I once used a spell-checker's dictionary to find words with each letter doubled. Some were easy (CC in "accept", OO in "moon"), others required compound words (HH in "hitchhike", WW in "glowworm") or words whose "Englishness" was questionable (JJ in "hajj", KK in "chukker"). Some were obvious once you had the answer but didn't fall into any of the obvious categories (II in "skiing").
The only letters I couldn't find doubled in any word that could be considered English were Q, X and Y. To this day I'm convinced there's some obscure compound word with a double Y that just wasn't in my word list, but I've never been able to find it.
Glenn said:
Not nearly as common as vacuum or continuum, are several -uu- words related to more familiar words:
residual – residuum "something residual"
triumvirate – duumvirate "two-person ruling body"
premenstral – premenstruum "the time during which wise men smile and say 'yes, dear'"
get real.this is a normal usage ?Thank you anyway
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