There are a few marginal words with triple letters in English. In *Portrait of the Artist...*, Joyce spells "ill-lit" without a hyphen, and all editors have preserved it. You can coin all sorts of Greek words, like "paleooology" (study of ancient eggs). There are other similar examples. In Modern Hebrew, the rules of grammar would occasionally require a triple-yod or a triple-vav, if there were not explicit rules to reduce them to double in exactly those situations. Party poopers. In Georgian there are two verb prefixes ga- and a-, and some verb roots begin with a- and accept both prefixes, leading to a bunch of words spelled starting with gaaa-. (Well, using the corresponding Georgian letters, of course.) The famous Welsh town with the long name in fact includes a quadruple L, but the name is a contrived publicity stunt. The cluster comes from the contact between *trobwll *"whirlpool" and *llan* "church". On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Mike Stay <metaweta@gmail.com> wrote:
For information on the other meaning of "triply repeated letter", contact your bookkeeper.
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Ed Pegg Jr<ed@mathpuzzle.com> wrote:
I'll time how long it takes for you to find more with the eggglass on my Asus eeepc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaadonta genus of slugs
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