[net.nlang] Words with 3 successive occurrences of the same letter

olmstead@syteka.UUCP (Patrick James Olmstead) (10/04/83)

Some months ago, someone posted an article (maybe to this newsgroup, I forget)
mentioning the word "pollless" as a possible example of a word containing the
same letter thrice in a row and asking for others (the article, not the word).
Just the other day, in Jimmy Breslin's "Forsaking All Others," I came across the
word "crossstreet."  He didn't hyphenate it.  Neither of my dictionaries lists
this word, although one of them does list "cross-stitch" with a hyphen.  How
about it, folk -- is "crossstreet" a word?

			Patrick Olmstead

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