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Seven “thats” may follow each other, and make sense.

“For be it known that we may safely write

Or say that ‘that thatʹ that that man wrote was right;

Nay, eʹen that that that, that ‘that Thatʹ has followed,

Through six repeats, the grammar’s rule has hallowed;

And that that that that that ‘that Thatʹ began

Repeated seven times is right, denyʹt who can.”


“My lords, with humble submission that that I say is this: That that that that thatʹ that that gentleman has advanced is not that that he should have proved to your lordships.”—Spectator, No. 86.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Th (Θ, theta)
⁂ T (τελεωσιζ)
Thais
Thalaba
Thales
Thalestris
Thalia
Thames
Thammuz
Thamyris
That
That’s the Ticket
Thatch
Thaumaturgus
Theagenes and Chariclea
Theban Bard or Eagle
Theban Legion
Thebes
Thecla (St.)
Theist, Deist, Atheist, Agnostic
Thelusson Act

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