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Wilder Posted 20 years ago
Vocabulary
Aardvark
Afternoon all,
I was sitting pondering at my desk (as I am wont to do on a Friday afternoon) and an aardvark wandered through my thoughts.
What I was wondering is - are there any other words in common English usage whose first 2 letters are the same (I can't think of any)? Is there a term for such a phenomenon?
Thanks in advance, and apologies if I have posted this in the wrong section.
Wilder
I was sitting pondering at my desk (as I am wont to do on a Friday afternoon) and an aardvark wandered through my thoughts.
What I was wondering is - are there any other words in common English usage whose first 2 letters are the same (I can't think of any)? Is there a term for such a phenomenon?
Thanks in advance, and apologies if I have posted this in the wrong section.
Wilder
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Hi, Odd that your thoughts were visited by an aardvark . Mine were visited by a llama . Best wishes, Clive
- Hi, Odd that your thoughts were visited by an aardvark .
- Mine were visited by a llama .
- Best wishes, Clive
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Hi,
Odd that your thoughts were visited by an aardvark. Mine were visited by a llama.
Odd that your thoughts were visited by an aardvark. Mine were visited by a llama.
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I believe there's also "aardwolf." Like "aardvark," it came to English from "Obsolete South African Dutch," where "aard" means "earth."
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There's also "Aaron" - it's a boy's name. I doubt that it's actually an English name, but it's fairly popular. Can't think of any other words used in English that begin with the same 2 letter.
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Hi,
I don't mean to ooze with confidence, but if you look for words other than nouns, there are probably oodles of them, eg eerie.
Best wishes, Clive
I don't mean to ooze with confidence, but if you look for words other than nouns, there are probably oodles of them, eg eerie.
Best wishes, Clive
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Hi again,
Is there a term for such a phenomenon? The nearest I can come is 'gemination'. This is from the Latin term related to twins.
It means
1. Doubling, duplicating, pairing, repeating. This seems relevant to our topic.
2. It also means, in phonetics, the doubling of a consonant
Is there a term for such a phenomenon? The nearest I can come is 'gemination'. This is from the Latin term related to twins.
It means
1. Doubling, duplicating, pairing, repeating. This seems relevant to our topic.
2. It also means, in phonetics, the doubling of a consonant
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In larger U.S. cities it is sometimes found that the name of a company will be Aardvark (plumbing, roofers, etc.), so that theirs will be the first one listed in the alphabetical listing of such in what we call the Yellow Pages.
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Thanks all, many others there that I should have though of but didn't 
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Oh well, my aadvark (who is ecstatic to hav
.Oh well, my aadvark (who is ecstatic to hav
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