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Old 12-11-2004, 12:13 PM   #61 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by eequeeku
I couldn't resist arising from lurkerhood to refute you on this. There are actually 24 other words I found with this property that equal "almost" in length. I will abstain from listing them.

However, I did find one word longer than "almost":

billowy

I will now rest my tired eyes, as they need it after much diligent reading of the dictionary.
I heard of "almost" as being* the longest word with letters in alphabetical order

I guess billowy doesn't apply as the double "l" doesn't count?

Last edited by itch vaccine; 12-11-2004 at 12:15 PM.. Reason: edit : being*
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