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© Stephen Balmer
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Bookkeeper is the only word with three consecutive double letters.
Sweet idleness; pleasing inactivity. (Italian: sweet doing nothing.)
Que dulce hacer nada, y luego descansar. (How sweet it is to do nothing, and then to have a rest.)
The opposite of formaldehyde is casualdejekyll.
There is a d in fridge but not in refrigerator.
Ghoti is fish, pronouncing gh as in enough, o as in women and ti as in nation.
The word helicopter has two components but they are not heli and copter rather they are helico (helix or twisted / curved) and pter (wing c.f. pterodactyl / winged finger).
If only. (Italian.)
Uncopyrightable is the longest word with all different letters.
World Wide Web is shorter aloud than its short form WWW as it contains fewer syllables.