What is the key rule for membership in the following set: screeched, scratched, scrounged, scrunched, stretched, straights, and strengths. (all with nine letters).
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Answer: they are the longest one-syllable English words
Others in the OED: scraughed, scrinched, scritched, scrooched, sprainged, spreathed, throughed, and thrutched.
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