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WORDS MISCELLANY

Bookkeeper

Bookkeeper is the only word with three consecutive double letters.

Dolce far niente

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.)

Formaldehyde

The opposite of formaldehyde is casualdejekyll.

Fridge vs refrigerator

There is a d in fridge but not in refrigerator.

Ghoti

Ghoti is fish, pronouncing gh as in enough, o as in women and ti as in nation.

Helicopter

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).

Magari

If only. (Italian.)

Uncopyrightable

Uncopyrightable is the longest word with all different letters.

World Wide Web

World Wide Web is shorter aloud than its short form WWW as it contains fewer syllables.