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Old 01-Oct-2006, 17:57
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Default Re: Words ending in -u
I can think of "flu" (actually a contraction of "influenza" but now considered to be a real word) and "gnu". In American English "through" is sometimes contracted to "thru", but I'm not sure if that counts.
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