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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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b666, maybe it's my own style, but * is for *emphasis and *x* is for *stress*!
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How about a double U?
Why, where, when, wherefore, who, whom, whence. (MaxQ doing his bit to lower the standard of puns still further.)
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continuum
and tsuwm-- you had some more?
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tsuwm explains *x* is for *stress*
Or wild cards, which Merriam Webster on line accepts giving us, among others, muumuu and squush, which latter sounds like a recent addition but dates from 1837.
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duumvirate - government or control by two people
weltanschauung - a particular philosophy or view of life (borrowed from German)
but you've got the most common ones (unless you want to count muu-muu ;)
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oh, here's one that's cuute but won't win uu any spelling bees: squuncke - obs. form of skunk
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b666um, tsuwm... your other permutations of my name have been amusing, if not endearing, but unless there's some alternative association for "666", i really must take umbrage. sheeeeesh!! 
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bdevil,
you're right; I hereby forswear the use of numerals altogether.
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Numbers can get bad reputations. A couple Hispanic students took umbrage when a lecturer said that in South America, the number 606 on a sign outside a shop meant that it was a pharmacy. That was the number that Paul Ehrlich gave to salvarsan, the first really effective cure for syphilis.
There is an interesting story that goes with that. A woman who had been secretary to Paul Ehrlich wrote a book, in which she said Paul Ehrlich had thought 606 was worthless. But against his will, he had been obliged to give laboratory space to a Japanese graduate student who had managed to infect rabbits with syphilis. Paul Ehrlich, just to make busy work for the Japanese student, set him to testing all the compounds that had been found useless. When the Japanese student found 606 would cure syphilis in rabbits, Paul Erhlich shouted "I knew it all the time!" And made sure the Japanes student got no credit at all.
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you're right; I hereby forswear the use of numerals altogether.tsuwm, does this mean we can count you out in the future?
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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. A woman who had been secretary to Paul Ehrlich wrote a book
Hi William,
Would that be an early case of whistleblowing? Have you got the reference of that book?
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Oh boy!! Is my face red!! Thank you,twusm, for the additions but nobody got the the one I had in mind, which is a sports term for the rest periods in "common" English(american, Indian or whatever).
The word is CHUKKER!!!!!!!!
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The word is CHUKKER!!!!!!!!Don't be red-faced too long: "the only stupid question is the one we never asked". Now I had thought this was spelled chukkar, but on having LIU find you have given me the lesson of a new variant, so thanks!
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Dear Maverick: Did you ever play a pukka chukker wearing chukkas?
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"a Japanese graduate student who had managed to infect rabbits with syphilis."
Dr Bill, I'm still thinking about this one...
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The Japanese graduate student in question was a genuine scientific pioneer, wrongfully denied the credit he deserved. And surely you are not hinting that bestiality with a rabbit is possible? A medical missionary to what is now Vietnam warned us not to eat duck over there, as the cooks routinely copulate with the abominable cavity thereof. But he never mentioned rabbits in that connection.(sic, again.)
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reminds me-- what is the difference between a feather and chicken?
with a feather is kinky-- but with a chicken is down right perverted!
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I have two really useful [ahem] ones in my wwftd list.
What's wwftd?
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wwwftd = worthless word for the day
A list that tsuwm provides.
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shanks attempt to define wwwftd [sic] woefully worthless word...? weally worthless word...?? 
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wwwftd [sic]... but is there a cure?
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wwwftd [sic]
... but is there a cure?
Why Would We Feel The Desire?
Oh, I'm il, I'm il (sic?)
I need a glass of good (propter?) hoc!
The lunatix have taken over the asylum...
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... but is there a cure?For syphilis? If one took 606, and it worked, did one become syphilless? BTW, the spell checker wants me to substitute Syacuse for syphilis. Any correlation?
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If Anu and tsuwm are *really one and the same, would their combined offerings then be www.fat_dad?
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