Wednesday, September 12, 2007

ea

A strong contender for '2-letter Word of the Year 2007'?

From the OED: 'A river, running water. Still in use in Lanc.; in the fen-country applied to the canals for drainage, in which sense it is usually spelt eau [as if a. F. eau water].'

Unlike many of the two-letter oddities with which internet scrabblers have been confounding me of late, this one I could see myself getting some use out of.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

How about the word I put down with it:

Axions
I bet you won't use that one, although I do sometimes