[math-fun] Legitimate word with a triple letter
Once upon a time, visiting Sweden, we came upon a tiny village with the place name O:O:O, where I've used O: to mean O with an umlaut. This didn't count as a triple letter in Swedish, because the letters O and O: are considered unrelated. There are 3 non-English letters in Swedish, A: O: and maybe A'(?). They are alphabetized at the end of the alphabet after Z, and I'm unsure if they even count as vowels. Rich -----Original Message----- From: math-fun-bounces@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:math-fun-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Eugene Salamin Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 11:39 AM To: math-fun Subject: [math-fun] Legitimate word with a triple letter
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In German there are several words with triple consonants, formed by joining two words, one of them ending with a double consonant. For example, Schifffahrt (shipping) created by joining Schiff (boat) with Fahrt (trip, travel). Also, Stillleben (still life), Sauerstoffflasche (oxygen bottle). On an unrelated note, I enjoyed finding out recently that the village of Llanfairpwllgwyngyll (etc.) is twinned with the village of Y in France. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y,_Somme Cheers, Seb On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 21:33, Schroeppel, Richard<rschroe@sandia.gov> wrote:
Once upon a time, visiting Sweden, we came upon a tiny village with the place name O:O:O, where I've used O: to mean O with an umlaut. This didn't count as a triple letter in Swedish, because the letters O and O: are considered unrelated. There are 3 non-English letters in Swedish, A: O: and maybe A'(?). They are alphabetized at the end of the alphabet after Z, and I'm unsure if they even count as vowels.
Rich
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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 --Ed Pegg Jr
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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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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I'll time how long it takes for you to find more with the eggglass on my Asus eeepc.
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There's a town of Kaaawa on the NE coast of Oahu. Doesn't someone have a copy of Borgmann's fabled Language on Vacation? --rwg
Doesn't someone have a copy of Borgmann's fabled Language on Vacation?
Dmitri doesn't do multiple letters per se but does reference AA- AATAMAD (an unidentified town in Palestine) as the first word in English "exhibiting a consonant" and ZZZZ (to snore) as the last. The latter is re-used in the Consonantal Concentrations section wherein he also mentions HMMMM (an expression of pleasure or astonishment) and the three-letter multiples PHFFFT and BZZZBZZZ. According to Jeff Grant (Word Ways), "AAAAAH takes over from AAAATAMAD in W.R. Cooper's 1876 An Archaic Dictionary as the first dictionary entry containing a consonant".
Excellent. Now, can this adjunction be used to construct quadruple letters? -- Gene ________________________________ From: Seb Perez-D <sbprzd+mathfun@gmail.com> To: math-fun <math-fun@mailman.xmission.com> Cc: "rcs@xmission.com" <rcs@xmission.com>; "Schroeppel, Richard" <rschroe@sandia.gov> Sent: Thursday, September 3, 2009 12:55:26 PM Subject: Re: [math-fun] Legitimate word with a triple letter In German there are several words with triple consonants, formed by joining two words, one of them ending with a double consonant. For example, Schifffahrt (shipping) created by joining Schiff (boat) with Fahrt (trip, travel). Also, Stillleben (still life), Sauerstoffflasche (oxygen bottle). On an unrelated note, I enjoyed finding out recently that the village of Llanfairpwllgwyngyll (etc.) is twinned with the village of Y in France. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y,_Somme Cheers, Seb On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 21:33, Schroeppel, Richard<rschroe@sandia.gov> wrote:
Once upon a time, visiting Sweden, we came upon a tiny village with the place name O:O:O, where I've used O: to mean O with an umlaut. This didn't count as a triple letter in Swedish, because the letters O and O: are considered unrelated. There are 3 non-English letters in Swedish, A: O: and maybe A'(?). They are alphabetized at the end of the alphabet after Z, and I'm unsure if they even count as vowels.
Rich
-----Original Message----- From: math-fun-bounces@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:math-fun-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Eugene Salamin Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 11:39 AM To: math-fun Subject: [math-fun] Legitimate word with a triple letter
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