Aphabetic letter pairs in words

ZW: zweiback

YT: byte

ZX = zzxjoanw

a word that has plagued lexicographers for decades. Ostensibly a type of Maori drum (or fife), it’s been labeled a hoax since Dmitri A. Borgmann’s Language on Vacation - 1965. It still shows up as a lexical entry from time to time.

ZY = fuzzy.

The last one is easy. I’ll hand it off.

ZZ: Zyzzyva. Also, ZY.

And that’s the end of the first round!

There’s not much left to do here, except to thank you all for your participation… But this word deserves a discussion by itself, as a sort if a post-mortem:

Now let’s do it backwards

ZA - zany

Backwards like ZA-ZZ, YA-YB?

Why not backwards like ZZ-ZA, YZ-YA, etc.? Players will get different words than they got in the first round.

Or first and last letters of the word, as in,

AA: armada
AB: Ahab
AC: almanac

Although it may be impossible… :smiley:

AD: ambled

AE: age

AF: aardwolf

AG: among

AH: awash

AI = alumni

AJ: swaraj

AK- Ask

AL = autumnal

AM: aluminum