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imurray on Sept 6, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Trampolines in JavaScript

Did you know that “bookkeeping” is the only word in the English language containing three consecutive letter pairs? You’re welcome.

Huh. Seems that's pretty much true. Occasionally people don't hyphenate sweettoothed.

    grep '\(.\)\1\(.\)\2\(.\)\3' word_list

ArbitraryLimits on Sept 6, 2013 | [–]

I always thought the Encyclopedia Brown case whose solution hinged on the villain's not knowing that was far-fetched.

http://brownencyclopedia.tumblr.com/post/33647027942/the-cas...

justincormack on Sept 6, 2013 | [–]

And subbookkeeper has four...

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