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Asked on February 27, 2021 in Other.
Would you consider writing Les Franu00e7ais?
How do I think about the Constitution?
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Asked on February 27, 2021 in Other.
I like fractious — it originally referred one inclined to make “fraction” (Discord), now it means “irritable; argumentative; quarrelsome”.
“In his present fractious mood, she dared whisper no observations, nor ask him any information. Whenever I asked her about her last two relationships she decided it was only her imagination. ”
“Nita Haj, Jane Eyre —Charlotte Bront, “
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Asked on February 27, 2021 in Other.
I ran a computer search for all the 8-letter English words where the third letter had a descender (pqgyj), the sixth and eight had ascenders (lbdfht), and the other letters had neither. I got the following words:
acquital, aegrotat, argental, argentol, arquated, augustal, capsidal, capsuled, capuched, cryostat, engirded, engouled, enjambed, ergostat, expanded, expected, expended, experted, expiated, exported, impacted, imparled, imparted, impasted, impended, imported, imposted
Topnotch is on the list because
t
has a “low ascender”, so it could count or not — but I would not use it because the uses thesecond
word with the first and second t withoutthe ascender and the third word with.
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