Enigami Wordplay Collaboration Clubhouse
Oddballs
Anomalies of interest that just don't fit well into other categories.
Stretched, Strengths - longest one-syllable words?
Aa - shortest two-syllable word (It's a kind of lava.)
Rotor - a palindrome you can spin!
Chai tea - thai chi A spoonerism that makes sense both ways. from Viveca Gardiner
The word "standard" is the letters from 1st, 2nd, 3rd with "a"s slipped in. from Roderick Kimball
Sine is a word we abbreviate by removing one letter. (sin --- trigonometric function) Are there others?
Words used only when accompanied by certain other words. So far, I've thought of "vim" and "thither".
"Bookkeeper" has three sets of double letters in a row. Are there any other words like this?
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