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Posted By: tsuwm double-h - 05/14/02 02:26 PM
>I'd bet there are very few words with a double-h.

lessee... fishhook, hitchhiker, beachhead, bathhouse... highhanded... withholding, witchhunt, clothhead

oh, and archhypocrite... and pariahhood...

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Posted By: Wordwind Re: double-h - 05/14/02 02:30 PM
But not threshold...

Posted By: AphonicRants Re: double-h - 05/14/02 02:38 PM
"archhypocrite" and "pariahhood" appear to be coinages, not found in dictionary.com or (for that matter) in wwftd -- though appearing on occasion on the net. They do represent an interesting display of creativity, tsuwm.

Posted By: belligerentyouth All double-h assemblages? - 05/15/02 07:57 AM
I think what was meant was:

> I'd bet there are very few words with a double-h which are not assembled from others.



[Now, I've put my foot in it]

Posted By: hev Re: All double-h assemblages? - 05/15/02 09:53 PM
[Now, I've put my foot in it]

Well, I'm going to walk in too... I found a couple (and I haven't looked REAL hard).

Eichhornia, genus Eichhornia -- (water hyacinth; water orchid)
Boughhty a. baw'ty. Bending.

Anyone else found any?

Posted By: tsuwm Re: All double-h assemblages? - 05/16/02 02:12 PM
I think what was meant was:
> I'd bet there are very few words with a double-h which are not assembled from others.


that's as may be, however the original challenge was yethhounds, itself so constituted.

and fwiw, pariahhood can be found in OED, and if you give archhypocrite a try in OneLook you'll find it was in Webster's original dictionary.

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Posted By: WhitmanO'Neill Re: All double-h assemblages? - 05/16/02 03:15 PM
And the pit that contains the remnants of a campfire would be an ashhole. just a general pun, folks!

Posted By: tsuwm Re: All double-h assemblages? - 05/16/02 03:38 PM
ash-hole, a hole beneath a fire-place or furnace into which the ashes fall; also, a hole in which ashes and household refuse are thrown away (our fireplace has one)

also, from the obsolescence dept.; feythhed, hostility

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Posted By: milum Re: double-h - 05/16/02 10:32 PM


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Dear >()<
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Hehhehheh! You highhats with your highhanded manners think
that you can withhold your nice double H words from the working man and his highly ethnic friends of pathhypongathous habits that you find so distasteful. For you I have these questions...

(1) Why is it that you can have a bathhouse by the pool and we can't have a double -h washhouse at the plant?
(2) Why is it that if you want to go somewhere all you have to do is hitchhike, and we can't even hitchhope a ride to town?
(3) Why can't hashheads in Turkey go to a proper hashhouse? One that is spelled with the royal double -h.
(4) You go on witchhunts; Why can't witches go on witchhaunts?
(5) If you call our neighborhood the pariahhood, can we call yours the pettyposhhood?
(6) If you people get to enjoy your beachhouses, give the hoochinoo indians back thier hoochhouses where they brewed a fleshhued grain called hurl into a passable beer. They found the long peachhued ends of the grain ideal for sweeping up the hoochhouse floors. Today this part of the grain is called highhurl, and it is imported from Mexico and used as broomcorn in all natural fiber brooms on the market today.

My advice to you richhooders: Get off your highhorses! Now!
Humphho! and good night!

- mw.


Posted By: Wordwind Slight tangent... - 05/16/02 10:50 PM
...and an apology. How many h's are in Scrabble?

Tucking my tail between my legs because I lost the Scrabble url I'd earmarked when my computer crashed for the third time and is now frigging unrepairable,
WordWondering




Posted By: Jackie Re: Slight tangent... - 05/17/02 01:01 AM
Okay, are people around here losing their minds? I know of one person who thinks he's two; milum's gone crazy with his discovery of how to make designer posts; and now WW wants to know, "How many h's are in Scrabble?" My Dear--none!