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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 3 of 3 1 2 3 Re: doobles and triiiples #27330 05/07/01 10:52 AM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,156 B Bean old hand Bean old hand B Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,156 see-er and no-see-em I would spell them "seer" and "no-see-um". I've never seen the triple-e spellings for either one. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: see-er and no-see-em #27331 05/07/01 01:42 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass ...are variants which turn up in really big dictionaries. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: see-er and no-see-em #27332 05/07/01 05:33 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,156 B Bean old hand Bean old hand B Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,156 Of course, tsuwm, I didn't doubt the authenticity of your spellings. I just thought they looked awfully weird. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: doobles and triiiples #27333 05/08/01 01:13 AM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 157 F francais31415 member francais31415 member F Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 157 No kidding? I didn't know there were any ii words! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: doobles and triiiples #27334 05/08/01 09:14 AM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 393 London N NicholasW enthusiast NicholasW enthusiast N Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 393 London aa: a kind of lava; Hawaiian laager, kraal, aasvogel: Afrikaans radii, etc. torii: a Japanese temple gate (?) continuum, duumvirate We can ignore the somewhat artificial classical words like euoi and Aiaiai. They hardly count as English. In English see + er becomes seer, but in Dutch the comparable compounds do keep three eee's. There's a town in Tahiti called Faaa. In Finnish, y is a vowel pure and simple: and by combining haa 'wedding', yö 'night', and aie 'intention' you can make haayöaie. (I'm doing that from memory, and the first word might be wrong, but if so it's something equally applicable like hää.) Shifting to consonants, in German Ballett + tanzer formerly gave Ballettanzer; the new system I believe renders this more logically as Balletttanzer. In English we're deprived of this sight by the hyphens in gill-less and Inverness-shire. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: doobles and triiiples #27335 05/13/01 01:41 AM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 157 F francais31415 member francais31415 member F Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 157 So English doesn't have any unhyphenated, triple-vowel words? By the way - I just found a quadruple-o word (albeit hyphenated) at the end of the "Altar Poems" thread. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Page 3 of 3 1 2 3 Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary Forum Statistics Forums16 Topics13,913 Posts229,326 Members9,182 Most Online3,341 Dec 9th, 2011 Newest Members Ineffable, ddrinnan, TRIALNERRA, befuddledmind, KILL_YOUR_SUV 9,182 Registered Users Who's Online Now 0 members (), 624 guests, and 5 robots. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters(30 Days) wofahulicodoc 29 A C Bowden 13 ddrinnan 1 Top Posters wwh 13,858 Faldage 13,803 Jackie 11,613 tsuwm 10,542 wofahulicodoc 10,539 LukeJavan8 9,916 Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210 AnnaStrophic 6,511 Wordwind 6,296 of troy 5,400

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