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colleen (4679 words)
appears in these lists:
Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening: a Practical and Scientific Encyclopoedia of Horticulture for Gardeners and Botanists, by colleen
food, by eggplantia5
verdure, by brandelion
kktor's Words, by kktor
fliti's Words, by fliti
eloise's Words, by eloise
jamieb's Words, by jamieb
Chromonyms, by mollusque
bunch of fruits, by rolig
monica's list, by monica
Flora, by anydelirium
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One of the few words in English that, phonologically, displays retrograde assimilation with regard to voicing, i.e. the voicedness of the b turns the s into a z. The only other word I can think of offhand is a proper noun: Pabst, where the voicelessness of the st affects the b.
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