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spoonmuppet | 15:48 Tue 07th Nov 2006 | Word Origins
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Television and hippopotamus. What links these two words that is unique in the English language?
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I don't know but it has been asked before. There was no answer though

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Phrases-and-Say ings/Question317482.html
Could it be that both words have dual etymological roots in both Latin & Greek?
Sorry, weefatboab, but if you check out the similar question that was posed on the "general" topic only the day before this question was posed on the "word origins" section, you will find that your suggestion does not work.
I don't know how to put hyperlinks (or "hippolinks") into an answer, but, if you google "television" and "hippopotamus", you will find that the 8th suggestion leads to Richard Herring's blog. From this, it seems that the question may have been incorrect, i.e. there may be nothing that connects these words, if this is indeed the original source of the question. (He asked the question on November 1st.)The suggestion that they can both be abbreviated to their first two syllables does not work - rhinoceros is another, and I'm sure there must be more.
Hippopotamus: both bits are Greek.
Television: Greek + Latin.

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