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"I'm missing the half of my backside"But if you'll excuse me saying so, that's a half-arsed solution, wofa.  Over this side of the Pond being "assless" would be lacking a donkey. Which actually could make more sense, come to think of it. "He would have worked on the beach selling donkey rides but for his asslessness". Edit: Snap, Rhuby!
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The word that began me thinking on this subject has a majority of a letter you wouldn't think would make up more than 50% of any word - the letter "Z." It's not a huge word but an accepted alternative spelling (one I refuse to use, natch) has an even 50% Z's.
I'll close out this thread in a day or two assuming that my Z word is not much of a stumper. "Possesses," at 9 letters, is another goodie. Any others?
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I never miss "LAST CALL" pour me a glogg please, and I hope it's a freebee.
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pour me a glogg please
It doesn't quite fit the original greater-than-50% stipulation, so maybe we could devise a "recurrent letter index," which normalizes the percentage by dividing it by the square root of the total length of the word (or something like that). In which case
Chargoggagoggmanchauggauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg (Webster Lake to you)
has to be in the running for top honors (seventeen Gs out of 50 total letters) !
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When I was a kid, my cousins' family vacationed at that lake and brought back a souvenir ashtray featuring that bizarre name. It never failed to fascinate me. Over the years I have often been inspired to attempt to compose a love song featuring that mysterious locale, something along the lines of "Underneath the Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamauggian Moon" but somehow was never able to crank out a suitable effort. After all, what rhymes with Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg??
(Bet the spell-check is going to gag on this one...)
And, yes, "pizzazz" was the word that originally starting me thinking about similar "50%+" words.
(Suspicions confirmed. Instead of Chargoggagogg... (etc.) the spell check suggests that maybe the word I'm searching for is "chariot." A bit of a stretch, what? And the suggested correct spelling of "pizzazz" is "placard"??
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the suggested correct spelling of "pizzazz" is "placard"
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when it can't find a word that's close goes to the next one alphabetically that is in its data base.
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It doesn't even bother looking for anything close. It just picks the next one in its list. And, except for standards such as doesn't, it doesn't like apostrophes at all.
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I didn't know that! I haven't ever used it because I'm a good enough speller and I know that people are generally tolerant of my typos (heck even my NAME'S a typo!) My most common typo is int he present sentence.
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