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Certain words are banned from being Akimbos, as finding them turns out to be far too easy, to wit:
Proper nouns (e.g. Schwartzenegger and Atilla).
Words from non-English phrases used in English (e.g. laissez and tyrannosaurus) - single foreign words (e.g. thermidor) used in conjunction with English words are occasionally allowed, but only if I like them.
"Scientific" words (e.g. hydrochloric).
Invented words (e.g. brillig, slithy, toves, gyre, gimble, wabe, mimsy, etc.).
Otherwise nonsense words which rightly belong in (often rhyming) hyphenated pairs (e.g. helter, skelter, pell, mell, hurdy, gurdy).
Obsolete words - unless they're really good ones.