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  • Re: Typologically UNbalanced Words ---- morbilli, overtill

    From henhanna@gmail.com@21:1/5 to henh...@gmail.com on Sun Nov 20 13:36:21 2022
    (typo)... i meant: Typographically....


    baccilli ---------- Bacilli is a taxonomic class of bacteria that includes two orders, Bacillales and Lactobacillales, which contain several well-known pathogens such as Bacillus anthracis (the cause of anthrax).


    On Sunday, November 20, 2022 at 1:31:17 PM UTC-8, henh...@gmail.com wrote:
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/morbilli
    morbilli ------- 8 letter word --- but the 1st half is (over) twice as long. illiilliilli

    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/overtill
    overtill ------- 8 letter word --- but the 1st half is twice as long. tilltilltill



    i was looking at the (8-letter) word [Honestly]
    and noticed how Narrow the last 3 letters are.


    ______________________
    (uppercase ?)

    The «M» and the «W» are the widest letters in the alphabet.

    The «I» is the narrowest, followed by the «J»; the «Y» and the «K» are slightly wider than the narrow module.

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  • From henhanna@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Sun Nov 20 13:31:15 2022
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/morbilli
    morbilli ------- 8 letter word --- but the 1st half is (over) twice as long. illiilliilli

    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/overtill
    overtill ------- 8 letter word --- but the 1st half is twice as long. tilltilltill



    i was looking at the (8-letter) word [Honestly]
    and noticed how Narrow the last 3 letters are.


    ______________________
    (uppercase ?)

    The «M» and the «W» are the widest letters in the alphabet.

    The «I» is the narrowest, followed by the «J»; the «Y» and the «K»
    are slightly wider than the narrow module.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Kerr-Mudd, John@21:1/5 to henh...@gmail.com on Sun Nov 20 22:24:49 2022
    On Sun, 20 Nov 2022 13:36:21 -0800 (PST)
    "henh...@gmail.com" <henhanna@gmail.com> wrote:

    (typo)... i meant: Typographically....


    baccilli ---------- Bacilli is a taxonomic class of bacteria that includes two orders, Bacillales and Lactobacillales, which contain several well-known pathogens such as Bacillus anthracis (the cause of anthrax).


    On Sunday, November 20, 2022 at 1:31:17 PM UTC-8, henh...@gmail.com wrote:
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/morbilli
    morbilli ------- 8 letter word --- but the 1st half is (over) twice as long.
    illiilliilli


    Don't be a sillibilli.

    --
    Bah, and indeed Humbug.

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  • From Anton Shepelev@21:1/5 to All on Tue Nov 22 12:56:08 2022
    henh...:

    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/morbilli
    morbilli ------- 8 letter word --- but the 1st half is (over) twice as long. illiilliilli

    You are the victim of the idiotic decision by the designers of
    Google Gropus to use proportaional fonts. Use monospace ones,
    either in a proper Usenet client, or via a browser plugin for GG.

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