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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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