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Besides "bookkeeper", what is the only English word that has back to back "K"'s in it?
Answer tomorrow.
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oh my... you need to define your parameters better with questions like this. do you mean 'common' English word? and what do you mean by 'English'? (a search of even the woefully inadequate AHD reveals at least 17 answers!)
here are five(5) that are pretty common English by most definitions:
Hanukkah
jackknife
knickknack
lockkeeper
trekker
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How about a double U-- vacuum springs to mind-- can you think of others?-- i know only one.
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I have two really useful [ahem] ones in my wwftd list. 
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Hey Storkie1 Don't get pout off by tsuwm's grumpiness. (  to tsuwm!!) I liked the challenge. And I like Helen's too. Any idea about the "uu"s? cheer the sunshine warrior
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i should have know!
You'll share them with us at some time?
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Hey Storkie1 ... Don't get pout off
Chuckle chuckle ... good one Shanks.
Welcome Storkie1 ...stay with us, it's a great ride!
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shanks, you are correct; questions like that *do make me grumpy. which one do you suppose is the *right* answer?
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questions like that *do make me grumpy
tsuwm, you are the only person i've seen use an asterisk to denote bold text without 'closing' the word. at first it thought was a typo, but you do it often. i note that later in your post you type "*right*". i'm curious: is there a difference? where did your style of a single apostrophe originate? the only other form i've seen is to _underline_ the word to be stressed.
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