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Comment author: Lumifer 01 December 2015 07:51:48PM 1 point [-]

It contains words such as aa

It has been suggested that this kind of lava was named by the first Hawaiian who tried to walk across it barefoot :-)

In any case, this is a foreign borrowed word.

Comment author: ChristianKl 01 December 2015 08:20:04PM 0 points [-]

In any case, this is a foreign borrowed word.

Quite a lot of English is haphazardly borrowed together. But my main point was that a lot of the list of two letter words in the Oxford dictionary doesn't look like "real English words".