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emma_in_dream ([personal profile] emma_in_dream) wrote2017-10-11 03:58 pm
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The word straight is the longest one syllable word I can think of in English. Are there any with more than eight letters?
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[personal profile] pedanther 2017-10-11 09:39 am (UTC)(link)
"straights"? Is that a real word that people who are not on Tumblr use?
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[personal profile] emma_in_dream 2017-10-11 09:51 am (UTC)(link)
Ooooh, and someone suggested stretched.
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[personal profile] sqbr 2017-10-11 11:23 am (UTC)(link)
As it happens Cam and I were discussing this the other day, he came across this wikipedia list and was deeply dubious of some of their choices. Scrunched etc seem like the best unambiguous ones.
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[personal profile] emma_in_dream 2017-10-12 11:25 am (UTC)(link)
Because of course this is the a top of mind issue among my friends.
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[personal profile] sqbr 2017-10-12 04:14 pm (UTC)(link)

Naturally!

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