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Not sure if this has been discussed. Which words can be repeated in English directly after one another? 'Had had' is well known, but I think there are cases where 'for for' is okay too. Which others are there?
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The word word comes to mind.
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oh, that that would be the only one.
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Will will fit the bill, Bill?
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Come to that, fit fit into any such sentence...
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there was a time time would fly.
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> can you cage cage?
Er, what? That's not really what I had in mind. Okay, what if we disallow the use of nouns and proper nouns. Of course you, you can probably come up with them either way - but I didn't mean simple repetition of words in separate clauses either. Or very, very straight forward repetitions for that matter;-)
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I guess, then, I have no idea what you are asking. seems to me, any word that can be both noun and verb would fit the bill, but.
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In proofreading a document with many fonts, an editor was heard to say, "I think that that that, that that that replaces, should be that that that was originally called for.
Edited to add the last five words to that that was originally there.
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