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jay-shi
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 Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2006 7:52 am Post subject: Fun with words |
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I was reading something on the 2006 IBT TOEFL is insane thread, which prompted me to do a google search.
Somehow I fell upon this site: http://rinkworks.com/words/oddities.shtml
I find it fascinating.
Hope you enjoy it. |
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Gorgias
Joined: 27 Aug 2005
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| Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2006 10:18 am Post subject: |
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| That is interesting, thanks for posting that. Sure makes me feel small that someone was able to put all that together, but at the end they forgot Hangang River! |
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tomato
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: I get so little foreign language experience, I must be in Koreatown, Los Angeles.
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Hater Depot
Joined: 29 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2006 5:52 pm Post subject: |
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| For a while I was trying to come up with the longest English word that didn't contain a smaller word before ending. So "tale" would be out because "ale" is a word. "Quiver" was the best I did. |
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schwa
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
Location: Yap
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| Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2006 12:33 am Post subject: |
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| Hater Depot wrote: |
| For a while I was trying to come up with the longest English word that didn't contain a smaller word before ending. So "tale" would be out because "ale" is a word. "Quiver" was the best I did. |
But "er" is a word. |
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tomato
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: I get so little foreign language experience, I must be in Koreatown, Los Angeles.
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| Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2006 6:21 am Post subject: |
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Hater Depot, doesn't this mean that you can't use any words containing a or i?
You could also go the other way and look for the word which contains the most smaller words. Halloween has been nominated for this title. |
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Hater Depot
Joined: 29 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2006 11:46 am Post subject: |
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| schwa wrote: |
| Hater Depot wrote: |
| For a while I was trying to come up with the longest English word that didn't contain a smaller word before ending. So "tale" would be out because "ale" is a word. "Quiver" was the best I did. |
But "er" is a word. |
I'm not counting interjections or single-letter words.
Anyway, it would still muster under my rules because the smaller word can't be completed before the end of the whole word. So "Member" could also work even though the final r gives you"ember". |
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tomato
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: I get so little foreign language experience, I must be in Koreatown, Los Angeles.
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| Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2006 7:38 pm Post subject: |
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Here are some words which I have come up with by forgetting to hit the toggle switch:
aha <==> ��
did <==> ��
go <==> ��
so <==> ��
to <==> ��
rick <==> ����
Any additions? |
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tomato
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: I get so little foreign language experience, I must be in Koreatown, Los Angeles.
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| Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 7:08 pm Post subject: |
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I stumbled on a few more:
an <==> �� (radish)
dud <==> �� (command, zero, ghost)
god <==> �� (line, row, asceticism) |
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