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From: olmstead@syteka.UUCP (Patrick James Olmstead)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Words with 3 successive occurrences of the same letter
Message-ID: <373@syteka.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 4-Oct-83 14:07:44 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct  4 14:07:44 1983
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Some months ago, someone posted an article (maybe to this newsgroup, I forget)
mentioning the word "pollless" as a possible example of a word containing the
same letter thrice in a row and asking for others (the article, not the word).
Just the other day, in Jimmy Breslin's "Forsaking All Others," I came across the
word "crossstreet."  He didn't hyphenate it.  Neither of my dictionaries lists
this word, although one of them does list "cross-stitch" with a hyphen.  How
about it, folk -- is "crossstreet" a word?

			Patrick Olmstead

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