Re: Is "repertoire" the longest word you can type on the top row of a QWERTY keyboard??
- From: R H Draney <dadoctah@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 29 Nov 2005 16:25:03 -0800
Lars Eighner filted:
>
>In our last episode,
><dminjr02oee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>the lovely and talented R H Draney
>broadcast on alt.usage.english:
>
>> Yeah, but it's French...if you want an English word, try "proprietor" or
>> "perpetuity"....r
>
>rupturewort
As long as we're spinning macros in our dictionaries, it appears that the
longest English word that *doesn't* use the QWERTY row is
"canvasbacks"...limiting it to just the home row, I can't beat (or even come
reasonably close to beating) "alfalfas"....r
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