est

Did you ever notice how society seems to be interested in those three letters…

estimate
estuary
estate

But I think that society is even more interested

when the letters come at the end of a word.

For example, we often hear that some thing or someone is the tallest, or maybe the shortest.

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Then let’s go for another pair… richest, poorest.

One more… oldest, youngest…

And on and on it goes.

Personally, I like somewhere in the middle, like Goldilocks.

I will even coin a new word

tweenest.