Borgmann's book is filled with fascinating word lore, but much of it with words so obscure that they won't be found in any standard arbiter for word games. But in fact zzz appears as a lowercase word in two very respectable dictionaries: Encarta and Webster's New World. (See < www.onelook.com >.) --Dan Hans writes: << [rwg wrote:] << Doesn't someone have a copy of Borgmann's fabled Language on Vacation? Dmitri doesn't do multiple letters per se but does reference AA- AATAMAD (an unidentified town in Palestine) as the first word in English "exhibiting a consonant" and ZZZZ (to snore) as the last.

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