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Article: Colloquy.(Brief Article)
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- Word Ways
- Article date:
- August 1, 2002
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Rex Gooch adds numerous examples to Susan Thorpe's "Noah's Consonants" article. Let 2xn be shorthand for "two or more of n different consonants":
2x7 Ignoring tens of medical terms and obscure chemicals, consider dichlorodiphenyltrichioroethane (cdhlnrt), the full name of DDT; electroencephalogrphist (chlprst) in Chambers, hyphenated in OED; pneumonoultmmicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (clmnprs); pseudautohermaphroditism (dhmprst), a Borgmann coinage.
2x8 Omitting tens of medical and unfamiliar chemical names, and staying within the OED, there are dimethylamidophenyldimethylpyrazolone (dhlmnpty), the full name of Pyramidon; 6-dimethylamino-4, ...