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ROUND ONE
'Ambidextrously' is an interesting word in that it contains no letter more than once.
I was looking at a Britain road atlas and wondered what the longest place name I could find with no repeated letters. I decided to restrict it to towns or bigger (i.e. not villages), and to qualify as a town it must either have a town council or be an official town to the Royal Mail (i.e. last line of correct postal address with the exception of the postcode).
There are some quite long ones that come pretty close: Wolverhampton, 13 letters with only O duplicated; Middlesbrough, also 13 with only D repeated; Rickmansworth, again 13 with only R duplicated; and Leighton Buzzard, a very impressive 15 with the only repitition being a double-Z.
What is the longest with no duplicates? The longest I can find is 13 (which, incidentally, only has one letter in common with the county it is in, which also contains no repeated letter).
While I have looked only at the UK, some of you in other countries may find some of your own, in which case you will have to come to your own conclusions as to what constitutes a 'town' (I would suggest, though, that the same letter with a different accent, e.g. e,é,ê etc., DO count as duplicates).
The first point of this thread will go to someone who can equal or exceed my 13. If non-British, I expect a link to some online mapping agency or other Internet reference to the place.
Deadline 9:00a.m. on Wednesday.
'Ambidextrously' is an interesting word in that it contains no letter more than once.
I was looking at a Britain road atlas and wondered what the longest place name I could find with no repeated letters. I decided to restrict it to towns or bigger (i.e. not villages), and to qualify as a town it must either have a town council or be an official town to the Royal Mail (i.e. last line of correct postal address with the exception of the postcode).
There are some quite long ones that come pretty close: Wolverhampton, 13 letters with only O duplicated; Middlesbrough, also 13 with only D repeated; Rickmansworth, again 13 with only R duplicated; and Leighton Buzzard, a very impressive 15 with the only repitition being a double-Z.
What is the longest with no duplicates? The longest I can find is 13 (which, incidentally, only has one letter in common with the county it is in, which also contains no repeated letter).
While I have looked only at the UK, some of you in other countries may find some of your own, in which case you will have to come to your own conclusions as to what constitutes a 'town' (I would suggest, though, that the same letter with a different accent, e.g. e,é,ê etc., DO count as duplicates).
The first point of this thread will go to someone who can equal or exceed my 13. If non-British, I expect a link to some online mapping agency or other Internet reference to the place.
Deadline 9:00a.m. on Wednesday.
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