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Charlie Reams No two-letter pencils have been awarded, even for Omelette. Surprising.

Matt Morrison so presume that's bayfield down there with the world's longest ever pencil?

Ben Wilson Who got the only Greek pencil?

Charlie Reams Anglo of course :) http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=199512

Matt Hamer Oddly enough Charlie, I tried a few games of Jr Goatdown specifically to get a 2-ltr pencil, but could never get a suitably unfriendly selection of letters to manage it.

By the way, I'm not sure the lengths of those pencils in Greek and Russian and German is correct - I think the "Umlauted/non-English characters counting as two characters" effect is in force here. For instance, Anglo's Greek pencil was for a 7-ltr word, not a 14-ltr word.

Matt Hamer And yes Matt, that's me with the 22- and 20-ltr pencils in Dutch. I'm fairly sure the 19-ltr pencil in ODE is also mine (for DISINTERESTEDNESSES), so I have 3 of the longest 4 pencils awarded (at time of writing). Pleased with that...

Matt Hamer I stand corrected - Lloyd actually has the pencil for DISINTERESTEDNESSES. I don't think pencils for v long words were working properly when I declared the same word as a max 3 months earlier that Lloyd (see http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=129854&round=1902567#r1902567). Incidentally, for those curious, there may have been a reent development on the subject of 2-ltr pencils...

Charlie Reams Well spotted by the Human Umlaut, now fixed.

Marc Meakin Wonder what comination of letters could produce an OED 2?

Lloyd Pet I have the longest English Pencil with unostentatiousnesses rock and roll!

Ian Volante I'm not sure there is one Marc, even playing goat. Would have to be ridiculously bad consonants and UU probably.

Kieran Child UUUUXKWQ (select Q)

Ian Volante I'm not sure there is one Marc, even playing goat. Would have to be ridiculously bad consonants and UU probably.

Kieran Child UUUUXKWQ (select Q)

Marc Meakin xu

Charlie Reams There have been five ODE games with a 2 as a max, all five were Omelette and all five times the max was XU. Oddly enough. Here's one for your amusement: http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=157251&round=2259654#r2259654

Marc Meakin unwaxed should have been allowed. in that game.

Adam Gillard XU all wrapped up thanks to Unlimited Jnr. XI and QI were alternative pencils. http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=220847

Matt Hamer It's a ridiculous "word", but this table now needs to be extended to 26-letter pencils... http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=217365&round=3085010#r3085010

Matt Hamer The first 21-letter English language pencil: http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=219681&round=3117392#r3117392

Adam Gillard Is there a Hebrew variant coming? Because there's a column in the table...

Joe Denniss I don't believe an English word longer than 21 letters is possible unless Charlie creates "Ultra Unlimited" with 12 letters in the selections.

Adam Gillard It is in Aegilops and maybe Omelette too. E.g. PCCCC in Aegilops would give the darrenic max PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS. Obviously that selection wouldn't come out, but somehow it must be possible for a word of more than 21 letters to be pencilled in.

Charlie Reams Who knows what the future may bring :D

Marc Meakin nasty aegilops maybe.

Adam Gillard Aegilops yielding a 45-letter max: http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=273346&round=3869047#r3869047

Adam Gillard Table needs to be extended again: http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=282923&round=4005220#r4005220

Adam Gillard 67332/136981 English (ODE) words have been pencilled. Almost half-way done.

Charlie Reams More than that, if you count all the words which are valid in ODE but were pencilled in another dictionary.

Ben Wilson And yet the silver pencil still hasn't arrived...

Charlie Reams :) I think I'll bring the silver pencil out when the number awarded drops below 10 a day.

Adam Gillard Matt stretches the length column to 58: http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=454445&round=6488255#r6488255

Adam Gillard Very close between Portuguese and German. Even closer between Spanish and Dutch. Also, it looks like in the year from 19/09/2010 (see comment above) there will still have been around 10,000 English (ODE) words pencilled.

Ian Volante Sometimes a 1 an be a max. Pretty rarely!

Chris Hare One-letter Russian pencil: http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=657337&round=9510512#r9510512

Mark D 12,985 ODE sixes have now been pencilled. Particularly impressive given than there's only 12,766 valid ones. http://www.apterous.org/dic.php?dic=0