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Spelling issue there with 'rhythm'.

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Rhythm

Has

Your

Two

Hips

Moving

I'm sure my English teacher would be so proud to know that I still remember that one, nearly 25 years later...

I (charitably) assumed it was deliberate because of a name clash with something.

You're right :), Rhythm.js were taken and Rythm is close to the initial french spelling.

Sorry my bad didn't google it properly first, not a spelling nazi - it just makes my brain hurt to look at it.

js library names has become like domains now - everything already taken, boing.js, bounce.js, pulse.js, throb.js, even wubwub.js - hey how about palp.js? meh...no rythm.js is better :) there were too many haches in that word anyway.

It's one of the harder words to spell I'd say, just like (for me) necessary and irrelevant and err. A few others like that.

"Never eat cress, eat salmon sandwiches and remain young" has stuck with me for life for "necessary", if that helps (almost certainly not!).

Trivia: It's also the longest English word without a vowel.

What word here has no vowel ?

"rhythm" (or "rhythms" to get a bonus extra letter). "y" is a vowel sound but is not considered to be a vowel in English.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vowel

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vowel

Indeed, I did not know that, thanks.

LOL. As a musician, I find something particularly irksome about 'rhythm' being spelled incorrectly. Perhaps because I have seen so many variations of the spelling over the years...

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