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#87461 11/25/02 11:07 AM
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can you think of a word with the letters "-wkw-" in it somewhere, in exactly that order?
hawkwings




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Nice, but isn't that (literally speaking) two words?

And apropos of this entire next-to-last-or-not discussion, the problem is that the "end" is not quite the same as the "object at the end," and therein lies our pilpul. The same ambiguity is exploited in all kinds of trick problems, involving for instance how long it takes a clock to chime a certain sequence...


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(literally speaking) two words?

Maybe, but hawkweed is but one.

But then I cheated to get that one, he said awkwardly.


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