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To: Fractal Trader
Did anybody know that raccoonkeeper is the one word in the English language that has three repeated letter pairs?

A scan of the Antworth word list turns up the following 62 words:

accessibleness
accessoriness
accommodativeness
addressees
aggressiveness
allottee
allottees
antiinsurrectionally
appellee
appellees
assessee
barrenness
bookkeeper
bookkeepers
bookkeeping
cheerlessness
classlessness
committees
commonness
effortlessness
footlessness
greenness
heedlessness
heelless
immunosuppressant
immunosuppressants
immunosuppressive
keelless
keenness
masslessness
mississippians
needlessness
noncommittally
nonpossessiveness
nonsuccessiveness
oppressiveness
pennilessness
possessiveness
prepossessingness
rottenness
sleeplessness
soddenness
soullessness
speechlessness
stubbornness
subcommittee
subcommittees
successfully
suddenness
sullenness
tennesseeans
toolless
uncommonness
unnecessariness
unneedfully
unsuccessfully
unsuccessfulness
wheelless
whippoorwill
whippoorwills
woodenness
woolliness
That list leaves out raccoonkeeper.
53 posted on 05/31/2008 11:14:02 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: cynwoody
funny pictures
55 posted on 05/31/2008 11:18:13 PM PDT by LucyT
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