It appears that we’ve focused on mathematics puzzles in the early part of this week, so I’ll give the word-game fans their comeuppance. And I’ll do it with only two letters of the alphabet. Today’s Brain Game:
What’s the longest non-hyphenated
English word that contains only
two different letters of the alphabet?
Here are three possible answers. Please feel free to comment with any additional ones that you may find.
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Does “Mooooooooooooooooooooooo” count? :-)
posted by Sheldon Siegel on 7-17-2008 at 8:16 am
I can’t do better, but I can do worse!
Sesses: the plural of an alternate spelling of cess, an archaic word meaning either luck or a tax, depending on the dictionary. I use this word several times a day.
posted by ThePolynomial on 7-17-2008 at 11:32 am
All I could think of was doodoo >_
posted by Kevin on 7-17-2008 at 6:16 pm
Couldn’t do better than that, and couldn’t think of anything else, though I never use any of these words.
posted by kim on 6-1-2011 at 10:53 am