3 Double Letters
Language brain teasers are those that involve the English language. You need to think about and manipulate words and letters.
There is a word in the English dictionary that has 3 double letters in a row.
What is it?
Comments
Gerd   
Aug 29, 2003
| The pet name for the BBC is Beeb, and if the BBC has a bookkeeper, they call him Beebbookkeeper. |
dutchymonster
Sep 26, 2005
| ...or bookkeeping..
but along the same lines so I wont split hairs  |
stephiesd
Dec 30, 2005
| i've loved this riddle since the first time i heard it.
i've used it many times to make my older brother feel stupid.
Great Job. [insert smiley doing thumbs up sign here] |
TehIgnored
Mar 16, 2006
| this was nice...thanks. |
aaks94
Jan 08, 2007
| i agree! that one was nice, and i got it lol |
Trickster1992
May 02, 2007
| Dude.. I got that in less than a second!  YAY
you totally stole it from the Encyclopedia Brown books though.. but good job gettin it through. =) |
sammyfish  
Jul 22, 2011
| And of course, a word with 4 double letters in a row is subbookkeeper (yes, it's not in common usage, but neither is bookkeeper)  Nice teaser! |
girlforhim
Jul 22, 2011
| this was a simple one. I am a BOOKKEEPER and, unfortunately, have to type that under my name all the time. Uggh |
doehead 
Jul 22, 2011
| What's amazing is that my old wornout brain remembered this from many years ago. I actually think I heard this first when Abe Lincoln and I had dinner at McDonalds.  |
rockstar1009
Jul 22, 2011
| So . . . based on comments nos. 1 & 7, if the BBC bookkeeper had a dogsbody, he would be the subbeebbookkeeper.
That's six now!
(The English language is starting to look more and more like its fellow Germanic languages now!) |
xdbtcp
Jul 22, 2011
| stephiesd - if you have used this many times on your brother, then perhaps you are not just making him LOOK stupid.....  |
georget99
Jul 22, 2011
| A bookkeeper's assistant is a subbookkeeper,
and an especially bad bookkeeper is a boobbookkeeper. An assistant really bad bookkeeper is a subboobbookkeeper. |
HABS2933 
Jul 22, 2011
| I too heard this many moons ago - Trickster1992 though this may have appeared in the Encyclopaedia Brown books, that is not its origins, Those books were written in the early 60s this riddle is much older than that. My grandmother told it to me when I was just knee high to a grasshopper. |
auntiesis
Jul 22, 2011
| Very old one, it's been around longer than I have. |
phyllisa
Jul 22, 2011
| LLOOLL |
wordmama
Jul 22, 2011
| An oldie but a goodie--quick and easy, no muss, no fuss! |
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