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Post 8921

~ jwf ~ scribblo ergo sum

smiley - bigeyes
>> Unless someone can show me samples of...<<

Bunkum
Alum
Antebellum
Scumbum
Rum
Birdy-num-num

smiley - pirate
~jwf~


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Post 8922

Baron Grim

Those aren't metals.


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Post 8923

Baron Grim

Although, this has been mentioned here before...


Continuum and vacuum are the only two words in our language with two consecutive/contiguous 'U's.


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Post 8924

Rudest Elf


"Continuum and vacuum are the only two words in our language with two consecutive/contiguous 'U's."

They may be the two most common English words with two consecutive 'U's, but this guy has found a whole lot more: http://people.sc.fsu.edu/~jburkardt/fun/wordplay/uu.html

smiley - reindeer


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Post 8925

Baron Grim

smiley - cool

But I don't think I'd consider any of those words English. Of course, continuum and vacuum are from Latin as well as many of those others, but they have been adopted into the English language.

Taking a second look at it (and at any Walmart in the US) I'd definitely say that muumuu has been fully adopted into the English language. I stand corrected. smiley - cheers


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Post 8926

Rudest Elf


The words I checked were all in one English dictionary or another. Certainly, 'equus' is pretty common. smiley - smiley

smiley - reindeer


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Post 8927

Rosie



Never posted to this thread before....

but...

did you know that...

Whenever I say the word 'Barbeque'...

it rains??

FACT!

Rosie-the-wlonksmiley - artist


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Post 8928

Mr. Dreadful - But really I'm not actually your friend, but I am...

*Looks out the window*

It's not raining so I dispute your fact. smiley - tongueout


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Post 8929

Baron Grim

You're not related to Rob McKenna are you? smiley - ok


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Post 8930

Rudest Elf


Just trying to be helpful, Baron Grim. smiley - smiley

Incidentally, are you related to the the fairy tale guy? smiley - tongueout

smiley - reindeer


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Post 8931

Baron Grim

I was asking Rosie about Rob McKenna... The Unwitting Rain God... lorry driver... nevermind.

But no, not related to the brothers Grimm. I'm just another incarnation of Count Zero. And no, I'm not related to the tasty candy bar.


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Post 8932

fords - number 1 all over heaven

@rosie smiley - rofl


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Post 8933

Mr. X ---> "Be excellent to each other. And party on, dudes!"

~*~*Looks out the window*
It's not raining so I dispute your fact. smiley - tongueout~*~

She didn't say it. She only typed it. smiley - winkeye



~*~(btw, even though I'm an "Amurkin", I have to agree that aluminium is the proper way to spell it and say it. Unless someone can show me samples of chrominum, magnesinum or titaninum.)~*~

Speaking as another American, I completely agree, though in the case of aluminum I've never known someone to say or spell it in any other way. Furthermore, "doughnut" is clearly the proper spelling, to think otherwise is madness. It's made out of dough, isn't it?

smiley - pirate


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Post 8934

Rosie



>>You're not related to Rob McKenna are you?>>

no relation - as far as I know....

but it was a fact that while I was bbq-ing, I was holding spatula - for flipping - in one hand ....

and an umberella - to keep dry - in the other....

and a glass of wine smiley - magic

and it was thundering !! smiley - wah

smiley - artist


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Post 8935

ITIWBS

The 5th President of The Continental Congress, Henry Laurens, captured at sea by the British while on a diplomatic mission, was held for a time in the Tower of London.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Laurens


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Post 8936

ITIWBS

On posts 8920 - 8922, even Isaac Asimov pointed out that the word 'helium', though official, is something of a misnomer, since the '-ium' suffix properly denotes a metal, while helium is in the noble gasses group, denoted with the -on suffix and ought properly be spelled, 'helion'.


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Post 8937

Vestboy

Is that the opposite of a lioness?


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Post 8938

Eveneye--Eegogee--Julzes

The smallest prime with a composite number of copies of each digit is the 42-digit 100001111122223333444455556666777798889899.


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Post 8939

~ jwf ~ scribblo ergo sum

smiley - bigeyes
>> a composite number of copies of each digit <<

I guess I dont understand what a composite number means.
If there are four each of the ten digits: 4 X 10 = 40.

smiley - erm

So you need two extra of one of the ten digits to arrive
at a 42 digit number.

You chose to add two extra 1s. There are six ones.
Four each of every other digit and six ones.
So what is "a composite number of copies of each digit"?

One of us is missing something here. I am quite prepared
to allow that it is me if you will only define 'a composite
number' and maybe explain why there are four of nine
and six of one.

smiley - cheers
~jwf~


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Post 8940

Mr. X ---> "Be excellent to each other. And party on, dudes!"

With the exception of the number 1, every number is repeated four times over. I don't know for sure that that's what he meant, but I expect so.

smiley - pirate


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