Most Consecutive Words

[GlenW]

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.

[Jim Brown]

Well come on then Geordie, Tell!

[GlenW]

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

[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.

[Guru]

Originally posted by GlenW


And the word that has 3 double letters is Woollen

The word you are looking for is:

Bookkeeper

or

Bookkeeping

[Guru]

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.

OK, I'm listening.
What is it?

[MartinSmith]

And another useless fact...

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words.

[GlenW]

Originally posted by Guru




The word you are looking for is:

Bookkeeper

or

Bookkeeping

Em I was trying to make a joke.

[InvisibleDuncan]

Originally posted by Guru
OK, I'm listening.
What is it?

John, while James had had 'had', had had 'had had'. 'Had had' had had a better effect on their teacher.

[MontyPython4U]

Originally posted by GlenW

Em I was trying to make a joke.

[Doug-n-Dinsdale]Yeah, well, um, your actual humour is best left to your actual professionals, know what I mean Glen?[/Doug-n-Dinsdale]

[Tyranny]

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).

[Niya]

lol...language is one strange beast.

[TysonLPrice]

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).

That was a really really really really really good example!

[TysonLPrice]

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.

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...

[Poppa Mintin]

It is grammatically correct. Can anyone beat this.

Grammatically correct ? Yeah, I reckon that's ok...
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.

[TysonLPrice]

The word you are looking for is:

Bookkeeper

or

Bookkeeping

sweettooth

[Shaggy Hiker]

I know a series of sentences that can be spoken, but cannot be correctly written down.

[Poppa Mintin]

sweettooth

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.

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxNice try though.



Poppa.

[wossname]

Famously:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo...uffalo_buffalo

[Spoo]

Yada yada yada

[FunkyDexter]

how about a sentence starting with "I is " ?

I is the ninth letter of the alphabet.

[Poppa Mintin]

I is the ninth letter of the alphabet.

And so it is...

Poppa.

[InvisibleDuncan]

Grammatically correct ? Yeah, I reckon that's ok...
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 !

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:

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. :-)

[SJWhiteley]

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:

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.

[Spoo]

And if John had used the plu-perfect form ,,,, ??

[homer13j]

Yada yada yada

Badger Badger Badger

[TysonLPrice]

Hads off to your explanaytion.

I've had better

[InvisibleDuncan]

And if John had used the plu-perfect form ,,,, ??

In this context, the pluperfect form would operate in the same way as the perfect.

[Spoo]

In this context, the pluperfect form would operate in the same way as the perfect.

Perfect.
Good thing there weren't any dangling participles

[dunfiddlin]

Em I was trying to make a joke.

Well, I got it. Wit is wasted on this riff-raff!

[gseattle]

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).