[Ads-l] Words that end in letter "v"

Barretts Mail mail.barretts at GMAIL.COM
Sun Jan 8 23:41:47 UTC 2023


Betty Burner, Jesse Sheidlower and Fred Shapiro provided that word. 

> On Jan 8, 2023, at 12:23, Tom Zurinskas <truespel at HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> I'd say none of these words qualify as a regular US word ending in letter "v" if we exclude foreign words or truncated words.  One I just thought of is "shiv",  which is a jail cell knife.

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