I've heard a sentence with the same word repeated 5 times.
It is grammatically correct.
Can anyone beat this.
Also is there a word with more than 3 consecutive double letters.
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I've heard a sentence with the same word repeated 5 times.
It is grammatically correct.
Can anyone beat this.
Also is there a word with more than 3 consecutive double letters.
Well come on then Geordie, Tell!
A man made a new sign for a pub.
The pub was called 'The Pig and Whistle'.
The owner wanted the sign to be wider, but he liked the length of the words.
So he asked the man if he could make the gaps between
'Pig' and 'and' and 'and' and 'Whistle' wider.
And the word that has 3 double letters is Woollen;)
I can think of a grammatically correct sentence that has a word repeated seven times. Following it with a second sentence would lead to that word being repeated eleven times.
:rolleyes:Quote:
Originally posted by GlenW
And the word that has 3 double letters is Woollen;)
The word you are looking for is:
Bookkeeper
or
Bookkeeping
OK, I'm listening.Quote:
Originally posted by InvisibleDuncan
I can think of a grammatically correct sentence that has a word repeated seven times. Following it with a second sentence would lead to that word being repeated eleven times.
What is it?
And another useless fact...
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words.
Em I was trying to make a joke.:)Quote:
Originally posted by Guru
:rolleyes:
The word you are looking for is:
Bookkeeper
or
Bookkeeping
John, while James had had 'had', had had 'had had'. 'Had had' had had a better effect on their teacher.Quote:
Originally posted by Guru
OK, I'm listening.
What is it?
:cool:
[Doug-n-Dinsdale]Yeah, well, um, your actual humour is best left to your actual professionals, know what I mean Glen?[/Doug-n-Dinsdale]Quote:
Originally posted by GlenW
Em I was trying to make a joke.:)
An individual can make an infinite repeat of the word "that". An individual could create one with "very" -- you will find this very, very, very, very (very * infinity), very repetitive -- but that, I presume, is not the sort of answer that you're looking for. A potentially infinite repeat of the word "that".
Look at that.
Now look at that that.
I want to refer to that that that that is referring to.
Then, I want to refer to that that that that that is referring to
Then, I want to refer to that that that that that that that that was referring to.
Then, I want to refer to that that that that that that that that that that that was referring to...
For every "that" that that that refers to, there can be a "that" that that sequence refers to.
Then, for every "that" that that that refers to, there can be added a "that" that that that refers to, meaning for every "that", there can always be three more "thats" added.
(Therefore, by some kind of Principle of Mathematical Induction, the sequence of thats can continue infinitely, which was what was wanted).
;)
lol...language is one strange beast.
That was a really really really really really good example!:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Tyranny
He stood above the canyon and yelled hello and within seconds an echo came back that sounded like hello, hello, hello, hello and trailed off to eternity...Quote:
Originally Posted by GlenW
Grammatically correct ? Yeah, I reckon that's ok...Quote:
Originally Posted by GlenW
However... Not at all sure about "John, while James had had 'had', had had 'had had'. 'Had had' had had a better effect on their teacher."
I'm struggling to make any sense at all of that !
But how about a sentence starting with "I is " ?
Pop.
sweettoothQuote:
Originally Posted by Guru
I know a series of sentences that can be spoken, but cannot be correctly written down.
Yeah... well you see, there you go, what can you expect if you will use those 'Foreign' American dictionaries... If you were to look in a real English dictionary (The OED for example) you'd see that 'sweet tooth' is at best hyphenated but more properly two separate words.Quote:
Originally Posted by TysonLPrice
:pxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxNice try though.
Poppa.
Yada yada yada
I is the ninth letter of the alphabet.Quote:
how about a sentence starting with "I is " ?
And so it is... :)Quote:
Originally Posted by FunkyDexter
Poppa.
I'm not sure why you're struggling with this one, but I'll give it some context. John and James had both written an essay. In the essay, John had used the past perfect form of the verb "to have". James, meanwhile, had just used the simple past form. The examples:Quote:
Originally Posted by Poppa Mintin
John - "He had had a great day".
James - "He had a great day".
The teacher preferred John's version. So:
John, while James had had "had", had had "had had". "Had had" had had a better effect on the teacher.
Simple. :-)
Hads off to your explanaytion.Quote:
Originally Posted by InvisibleDuncan
And if John had used the plu-perfect form ,,,, ??
Badger Badger BadgerQuote:
Originally Posted by Spoo
I've had better :DQuote:
Originally Posted by SJWhiteley
In this context, the pluperfect form would operate in the same way as the perfect. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Spoo
Perfect. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by InvisibleDuncan
Good thing there weren't any dangling participles
Well, I got it. Wit is wasted on this riff-raff! :cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by GlenW
mmm-hmm, well I can't beat that yet I do have a question:
Anyone know what the point of the statement -- The answer to the question of what the meaning of the word is is is is is?
(And promise, I'm mainly only on caffeine).