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The answer is not "Chihuahua"
How many English words can you name with the substring "wawa" present in them?(answer in comments below)
-- Eric
[14 May 2013]
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Merriam-Webster's 3rd only lists three such words (plus derived forms):stowaway
throwaway
wawaskeesh
Also, "towaway" is valid in the Scrabble dictionary.
Posted by: Eric Harshbarger
If you allow proper nouns, there's also an insurance company called Wawanesa. And there's the baby-talk word for water.
Posted by: Rosie Perera
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