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This thread is dedicated to words, which, through no fault of their own, are interesting in print.

Words with holes, repetitive shapes, ambiguity, &c:

savvy
assesses
aggregate
modern
filling

Any others?

banana
punctuation
filigree
graffiti
titular
boondoggle
representative
look
pool
room
marmalade
geostasis

...everything looks interesting now !

illigitimate
assassinate

ignoble
narcissistic
atavistic
coterminous
arrogation
Yog-Sothoth
fabulous

Yog-Sothoth

careful…

buckety

«illigitimate»

Illegitimate—not quite as bad when you remove one of the i’s.

In English only

diminishing

Mississippi

syzygy

imminent

swimming

balaclava

horror-romance

Milli Vanilli (not sure if “through no fault of their own” applies here)

Bananarama (ditto)

Lananeeneenoonoo (intentionally ditto!)

In other languages

tagetage Danish (‘top floor/garret’ – interesting because you read it as tage-tage, but it’s actually tag-etage)

ffwndwr Welsh (‘commotion’)

ffwr-bwt Welsh (‘without warning’)

dŵr dwfn Welsh (‘deep water’)

actually just pretty much everything in Welsh

töllöttää Finnish (‘look around a bit’)

… and pretty much everything else in Finnish, too, especially on this page

oiseau French (‘bird’)

Angstschweiß German (‘anxiety sweat’)

jäääär Estonian (‘edge of the ice’)

töööö Estonian (‘night of work’)

Råå (river in Sweden), hence rååål Danish/Swedish (‘eel from the Råå river’) (before 1948, this was written as raaaaaal in Danish)

Most of those are ‘interesting’ in print more because they contain such very odd combinations (or repetitions) of letters than because of the shape of the individual letters, of course.

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Helvetica

heavyweight
keyword
polyvinvyl
goggles

beijing

Obama (the answer is always Obama)

Cheers, Si

Suggested by the thread title, and probably more interesting (or rather disgusting) to consider than to see in print: Oceans of Lotions. There was a store with this name.

I dare some writer here to make a story out of all these words. What a hoot it would be.

Dan, go to bed. You are just getting squirrelly.

créée (French feminine version of "created")

bookkeeper
rhythm
unnecessary
aioli
teepee
minimum
oology
Hawaiian
huh
Ohio
suss
Qabalah
onomatopoeia

At the risk of sending this looping in the wrong direction, I think phlegm looks like a funny word.

commaaccent

I love typing that, even though I don't have to, when I'm generating glyphs.

Welsh for sure. They have caps in the middle of words.

Any word can look funny if you look at it long enough, even your name. My first and last names have a lot of repeating characters, tried to make a logo out of that once but it didn't look good.

perfidy
illicit
kreplach
accommodate
callipygian

…Oceans of Lotions…

Dammit Carl, I was just reading about Caligula and then you had to go and put Oceans of Lotions into my head. BLEAH!

vicissitude
Viridian
floor

monopod
alfalfa
Tennessee
fuddy-duddy
pop
Nietzschean
chichi
coccyx

asinine
waffle

Welsh for sure. They have caps in the middle of words.

What, like OpenType? :)

But seriously, I don't recall seeing capital letters in the middle of words when I was growing up in Wales, but I may have simply missed this aspect of the orthography. Can you give me some examples, Patricia?