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#436 - 03/17/00 09:14 PM Longest word
Lady stranger Registered: 03/17/00 Posts: 7	Can anyone help me? My daughter has asked me, "What is the longest word that can possibly be made using the letters from any one row on a keyboard?" Any suggestions? (no proper nouns)
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#437 - 03/18/00 02:03 AM Re: Longest word
lusy member Registered: 03/16/00 Posts: 140 Loc: Melbourne, Australia	G'day Lady, What an interesting question! Best I can do is "writeup" off the top line and "flasks" off the second. I will personally donate the Blue Heeler Award to anyone who finds anything in the third line! Welsh excepted!
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#438 - 03/18/00 09:09 AM Re: Longest word
mark stranger Registered: 03/18/00 Posts: 1	Hi, I can't believe this, but it looks like the answer might be "typewriter" itself. Do you think that was planned? :) Mark
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#439 - 03/29/00 11:23 AM Re: Longest word
Lady stranger Registered: 03/17/00 Posts: 7	Well Mark, seems that typewriter is the most common word. Proprietor was another one. Thanks.
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#440 - 04/04/00 07:38 PM Re: Longest word
Apocryphon stranger Registered: 04/04/00 Posts: 5 Loc: Providence, RI	There are two longer words that I know of, but as I did not discover them myself, I will leave them as puzzles. One is twelve letters long and refers to something you may have used in your younger days. The other is fourteen letters long and hyphenated, meaning roughly "gaudy." There are also a few more ten letter words.
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#441 - 04/05/00 09:24 PM Re: Longest word
Jackie Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 11582 Loc: Louisville, Kentucky	12 letters: teeter-totter. Thanks for the hint! Still cogitating on the others.
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#442 - 04/05/00 11:52 PM Re: Longest word
Lady stranger Registered: 03/17/00 Posts: 7	Just want to remind you it has to be on "one line of the typewriter" the dash(-) is on the the line above, but I am curious to know what that 14 letter word is???
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#443 - 04/06/00 04:40 PM Re: Longest word
tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Registered: 04/03/00 Posts: 10472 Loc: this too shall pass	...and since the 14-letter one is hyphenated, it's going to look something like 1234567-8900987 (and be pretty hard to pronounce 8).
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#444 - 04/30/00 06:58 AM Word puzzles
tututu stranger Registered: 04/03/00 Posts: 23 Loc: Bellingham, WA USA	The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter.......... The longest English word that is typed with only the left hand!......12 letters Three words which contain all the vowels in the correct order! Two are nine letters...one is ten! Or the four words in the English language that end in "dous" Tu _________________________ Tu
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#445 - 04/30/00 10:55 AM Re: Word puzzles
tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Registered: 04/03/00 Posts: 10472 Loc: this too shall pass	let's see... there's infandous and nefandous... 8-) http://members.aol.com/tsuwm/
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