Double trouble

[Guest]

Whcih is the only word in the English language that contains three consecutive pairs of double letters.

(by double letters I mean like the 'tt' in letter)

Asnwer 1

Bookkeeper

While speaking of the English Language can you name a 10 letter word that can be spelt using only top row of letters on a QWERTY keyboard.

Answer 2

Typewriter

And last one. Which word in the English language is most often spelt incorrectly?

Answer 3

Incorrectly

[Guest]

Anyone know of an English word with six consecutive vowels?

Euouae is the longest vowel only English word, as well as has the most consecutive vowels. Info from wikipedia and the Guinness Book of World Records.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euouae

[Guest]

Actually I always thought the word success was most oftenly misspelled

[Guest]

In my electricity and magnetism class, we learned about a famous physical law. My professor was excited to tell us that this was the title to this law contained the only word in the English language (that he knew of) that had a triple letter.

A hint: this law states that

Gauss's Law

Maybe you should have told your prof to talk to an elementary school teacher. The possessive of Gauss is Gauss'... no extra "s"

[Guest]

The possessive of Gauss is Gauss'... no extra "s"

See the example using the name 'Jess' under 'Singular Possessive Nouns'.

http://www.kyrene.org/schools/brisas/sunda...explanation.htm

[Guest]

#3 SPELT is a hardy variety of wheat of inferior quality, sometimes grown in mountainous regions. Latin name: Triticum spelta

I'm quite certain it should be "spelled" - maybe spellcheck or Webster's might have helped out there!!

[Guest]

Quite often spelling miss takes occur because people plaice two much reliance on spell cheque soft wear. Spell cheque programs are grate but they do not spot all tipping errors.

[Guest]

I suppose your teacher had never heard Strauss's symphonies, or observed Moss's modeling career.

Did you know that the longest place name in the UK has 4 consecutive 'l's ... "Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch"

[Guest]

for the third one: "Antidisestablishmentarianism" is often spelled incorrectly. In fact I am not sure I spelled it right.

[Half Fast]

The only word most often spelled incorrectly = I-N-C-O-R=R=E-C-T-L-Y. Who could've guessed that?