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#82969
10/07/2002 10:36 AM
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stranger
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My dad (and i won't be defeated) has challeneged me to find the one word in the english language that contains three sets of alphabetically consecutive letter pairs. I.e. ab or jk. Does anyone have a clue?
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#82970
10/07/2002 2:24 PM
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Carpal Tunnel
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one word?? according to whose dictionary?
well, fwiw, here's a clue:
plug de*no*st into OneLook
or try: abst* and peruse the results (or ab*st - this one reveals a six-letter word!)
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#82971
10/07/2002 3:04 PM
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stranger
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To be honest I hadn't done much research myself. Thanks for the tip though. I will have words with my dad
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#82972
10/07/2002 3:17 PM
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Pooh-Bah
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I suppose abstentionist doesn't count because the st pair is used twice. Presumably you mean three unique pairs of alphabetically consecutive letters.
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#82973
10/07/2002 3:19 PM
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won't be defeated
You might want to define your terms, too. If they don't have to be in alphabetical order, if a letter can be in two runs and they don't have to be three different pairs defeated qualifies. In fact it has four pairs.
defeated
defeated
defeated
defeated
But, I suppose, if he insists it's unique.
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#82974
10/07/2002 3:26 PM
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Pooh-Bah
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Maybe if we hired some ghostwriters they could find the word for us. And if they are successful it would be demonstrably delightable. (Rather obsolete I admit. We should probably abstrude "delightable" from the search. After all, if we came up with too many words [thanks to the OneLook dictionary] it might destabilize your relationship with your father, which would be understandably detestable.)
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#82975
10/07/2002 4:10 PM
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Pooh-Bah
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abdest \Ab"dest\, n. [Per. [=a]bdast; ab water + dast hand.] Purification by washing the hands before prayer; -- a Mohammedan rite. --Heyse.
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