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  • The study of fossil eggs. Also spelled "paleoology" by those who do not appreciate the beauty of three eggs in a row.

    November 15, 2007

  • The British form is even more curious: palaeooology – though I think if either of these triple-o words came up in a text I was copy-editing, I would have to get out the old hyphenator.

    September 9, 2008