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Did you know?
1   The word "uncopyrightable" is the longest English word in normal use that contains no letter more than once.

2   If we place a comma before the word "and" at the end of a list, this is known as an "Oxford comma" or a "serial comma".
     For example: "I drink coffee, tea, and wine."

3   Some words exist only in plural form, for example:

–  glasses
–  spectacles
–  binoculars
–  scissors
–  shears
–  tongs
–  gallows
–  trousers
–  jeans
–  pants
–  panties
–  clothes
–  folk (cannot have one folk)
–  shenanigans
–  loggerheads
–  cahoots
–  smithereens
–  thanks
–  goggles
–  riches
–  jitters
–  remains
–  annals
–  suds
–  outskirts

4   Here are a few more. You try to guess what these always-plural words are.
     Don’t list them in your comments because it will spoil the challenge for the others.
    Click after the word to see the answer.

   s _ o _ _   shoes 

   sl _ p _ _ rs   slippers

   ear_ _ _ _ s   earrings

   gl _ _ e _   gloves

   co _ ten _ _  contents

   a _ en _ s   amends

   py _ am _ s   pyjamas

Well, how well did you do?

4. Jan. 2019 01:17
Kommentare · 6
1

Hi Richard,

It seems that I am late to your test. I knew five of the words you listed.

4. Januar 2019
1

"ALSO, rhythm(s) is the longest English word without any vowel."

"There may be another [one]: syzygy."

Don't forget crwth and cwm!

Whenever there is a syzygy, I like to hike to a nearby cwm and play ethereal music on my crwth... don't you?

4. Januar 2019
1

Kaj Chieh Shih

Thank you for your good comments.

You are 100% correct about the word rhythm, but I was surprised to learn that there may be another word that meets the definition of being the longest English word without any vowel;

syzygy


noun: the nearly straight-line configuration of three celestial bodies (such as the sun, moon, and earth during a solar or lunar eclipse) in a gravitational system

syz· y· gy         | si-zə-jē |

4. Januar 2019
1
Very good Richard. I imagine you're a great conversationalist.
4. Januar 2019
1
ALSO, "rhythm(s)" is the longest English word without any vowel. 
4. Januar 2019
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