The 20-volume historical Oxford English Dictionary also has scraughed, scrinched, scritched,scrooched, sprainged, spreathed, throughed, and thrutched. It includes, too, a single instance of the ten-letter word scraunched, from the 1620 English translation of Don Quixote, a novel by the Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes. ~~~ source... Oxford Dictionaries, language matters.
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Mar 15, 2014
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#83
I'm thinking of starting a Miss Chess.com 2014 competition in off topic.
What u think?
YEEEEESSSSSS!!!! You got it!
(The word, not the miss chess! Although hat is a good idea
Filthtown)
What is the oldest word in the English language?
If you remember, I told you in the FOOTBALL CRAZY!!! Thread. You might want to look back at that.
You
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Mar 16, 2014
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#90
ConnorMacleod_151 wrote:
who?
Thats the oldest word, who... (u knob!)
YESSSS!
It's TOWN
Babytigrrr gets it!!
Mar 16, 2014
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#92
brumtown wrote:
YESSSS!
It's TOWN
Babytigrrr gets it!!
I need proof... i'm sure back in the caveman days they never said 'town'.... 'who' would have been more appropriate.
It says so In the book I'm using
:)/
'1001 COOL FREAKY FACTS'
Mar 16, 2014
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#97
English is a mish-mash, a melting pot if you like of so many different languages such as Germanic and Latin... the early Anglo-Saxons pretty soon started inventing their own words... it's quite conceivable that 'town' became one of the first. Nobody would really ever know...
Mar 16, 2014
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#98
My turn 
Ok...i'm thinking of a 7 letter word ending in 'z'.
_ _ _ _ _ _ Z
Cranisz
Hmm...
I've never heard that word before
If you can prove to me that it exists...
... You can have the point