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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 ;)
--- 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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