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i like perennial and parallel for the double letters in the middle-- and parallax-- the last is a favorite word to whip and and impress someone with... the effect can be commonly seen.. and make for an interesting discussion over drinks..even if they are just water or iced tea.
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three sets of double letters -
How about bookkeeper?
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I'll see your parallax and raise you a parallelepiped, which scores well for spelling, pronunciation, and meaning.
I admit I've never actually seen its adjective parallelepipedal but I offer it from my reserve stock anyway.
Then there's:-
Burkism, Cranioclasm, Gloppen, Gnof, Hagseed, Jackpudding, Kecklish, Malashaganay, Metemptosis, Outpassion, Pectoriloquous, Splanchnotomy, Surquidry, Unseven, Vomiturition
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I'm sorry, I can't help this:
"parallelepipedal"
Banana-fana-bipedal
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OOO! thank you! I have a use for parallelepipedal I have a a small wooden puzzle that is a striped parallelepipedal knick-knack when assenbled-- and difficult to pick up with out disassembling-- and after guests have tried for 30 minutes or so-- i take it from them, assemble, and put away-- I love 3-D puzzles.
I always just called it a "squished square" shape! (when i really meant cube for square!)
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paralelipipido is Brazilian Portuguese for 'cobblestone.' It's one of my favorite words (for pronouncing)  As for typing 'minimum' ... my fingers stumble over each other. Strange symmetry indeed, Faldage.
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m i n i m u m
d u d u d u d
2 2 1 2 2 1 2
It's a 3 against 2 rhythm. Ya get that in Brasilian music?
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The OED has quite a few bona fide quotes of parallelepipedal, not to mention parallelepipedous and parallelepipedonal. (Oops, I mentioned them.) (I haven't managed to say any of them yet.)
The word minimum, or ones very like it, is why we have dots over i's. In Gothic script it's a sequence of fifteen effectively identical strokes.
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I gotta say, unseven is incalculably eldritch... To render other than seven; to make to be no longer
seven. [Obs. & R.] ``To unseven the sacraments of the church of Rome.'' --Fuller. [dictionary.com] this one's going into the wwftd queue with a bullet
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The word minimum, or ones very like it, is why we have dots over i's. In Gothic script it's a sequence of fifteen effectively identical strokes.
In Italian cursive writing, the m's are often written as w's and the n's are often written as u's. (They make the round part into a point.) So you need to have some inkling of the word you're reading. Gets confusing when there are i's and t's nearby, like in my dad's name, Antonio. It looks like Autouio. Weird, eh?
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