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A long time ago I heard there were two words in the English language that had three successive double letters. One is bookkeeper; but I never learned the second. Does anyone know what it is?
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Disappointing answer, HouseWolf, but I found this quote "Bookkeeper" and "bookkeeping" are the only words in the English language with three consecutive double letters.at http://www.jayp.net/trivia/lang01.htm
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Although a place name is not part of the English language, you may be interested to note that a dockland suburb of Sydney, Australia has this property. Mentioned in an earlier post ("Where Do You Live"), the place is "Woolloomooloo" (wool(as in sheep)-uh-mar-loo).
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Thinking about Marty's response (Hi Marty!), there ARE two words that fit - bookkeeper AND bookkeeping!! Good one for a trivia night!!
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Bookkeeping kind of finesses the answer. My understanding was that there was another quite different word - not Australian - that filled the bill. Ah well, I'll keep searching.
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I'll keep searching
Welcome to this board HouseWolf. Please feed it back if you come across another answer!
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