Re: Is "repertoire" the longest word you can type on the top row of a QWERTY keyboard??

On 2005-12-01, Evan Kirshenbaum <kirshenbaum@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Serge Paccalin <sp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> Le mercredi 30 novembre 2005 à 18:31:07, J. J. Lodder a écrit dans
>> alt.usage.english :
>>
>>> Serge Paccalin <sp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> "Répertoire" is French. "Repertoire" is not.
>>>
>>> On usenet it is,
>>
>> Usenet has always been an 8-bit medium.
>
> Actually, it's (officially) always been explicitly a 7-bit medium.

Regardless, on a 7-bit medium, the french word in question would be
spelled R{pertoire.
.

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