Re: self-referential and/or preposterous words

[Hugh Haskell <hhaskell@MINDSPRING.COM>]

At 14:27 -0400 9/30/01, John S. Denker wrote:
> It is amusing to think of other words that exemplify themselves.  Examples
> include:
>   -- noun
>   -- newspeak
>   -- pentasyllabic
And I could ask why "abbreviation" is such a long word (in fact, most
of the time it is abbreviated), but if we want to get into a
protracted discussion of the inconsistencies of the English language,
we're probably going to have to change the name of this list, because
that is all we'll have time to talk about.

Hugh
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