english word with a double K in it?

[joko]

are there any others than trekking?

thanks

[Wharton]

joko - may I call you jokko?

[jaberwocky]

most of these words are 2 words !!!

[thenry]

You can't smoke an Eton BUT you can make him Prime Minister !

[joko]

thanks all

chanda - thanks but i asked for ENGLIGH words

and yes all those listed seem to be two words stuck together...

are there any with just a single word involved? - like trekker, trekking trekkie etc?

[MarkRae]

> but i asked for ENGLIGH words
> like trekker

LOL! Sheer class!

[thenry]

fukked

[Mick-Talbot]

oo'dear

[mike11111]

Pace Mr Mark, but trekker is indeed an English word, being derived from the Afrikaans word "trek" meaning a journey.

[MarkRae]

Just like chukka, pukka, markka, tikka etc...

[mike11111]

Now don't be a silly boy, Mark. If you cannot distinguish between Hindi and Afrikaans I despair of you.

[Brinjal]

Afrikaans is derived from dutch, flemish. Not English. I don't praat Afrikaans.

[murraymints]

bookkeeper

[MatydaLover]

Chambers has these as well as all the others ... hehe ...

Akkadian,akkas,angekkok,angekkoks
brickkiln,brickkilns
Chanukkah
dekkoed,dekkoing,dikkop,dikkops,dukkeripen
ekka,ekkas
Fokker,frikkadel,frikkadels
Habakkuk,Hanukkah,hokku,hokkus
jambokked,jambokking
lekked,lekking
Nikkei,Nikko
pakka,pondokkie,pondokkies
rokkaku
sakkos,sakkoses,Sikkim,sjambokked,sjambokking


tikka
Voortrekker,Voortrekkers
yakka,yikker,yikkered,yikkering,yikkers,yukki
er,yukkiest,yukky


... there are no foreign words in multiculturism

[cathfromsaron]

bookkeeper

[jno]

trekker has long since entered English, though I think chukka and pukka still sound like foreign words, spoken with faint quote marks around them.

But bookkeeper is definitely an English word. Lots of words were once two words and are now one; that's one of the ways the English language works (like German raher than French).

[HowardKennitby]

Re bookkeeper being the only English word with a double vowel - double consonant - double vowel sequence.

If you are relaxed about the hyphen the sweet-toothed also has this.

[MatydaLover]

Incidentally, bookkeeper is said to be the only English word with three consecutive double letters ... but I still like "woollen". Double-U, double-O, double-L!

[joko]

yes mark...english words ...

[echokilo]

Bookkeeper - also the only English word with 3 double letters