"That's a great deal to make one word mean," Alice said in a thoughtful tone. "When I make a word do a lot of work like that," said Humpty Dumpty, "I always pay it extra."

Saturday, 9 October 2010

zyxt

 
A word to rival yesterday's for a place at the end of the dictionary is zyxt. The Oxford English Dictionary ends on this nonword, being a long-obsolete Kentish spelling of the second person singular present tense of see!

2 comments:

  1. Oh! This is almost like German!

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  2. Scrabble player's dream word...?

    Not included in my Consise Oxford...

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