Huh? That's a word?

Question

I am a word with 6 letters.

I contain a "la" in the middle, in in the beginning, and at the end.

What am I?

I applaud your commitment to solving the problem in this currently hot meta question :-) — Bass, Jan 06 '18 at 20:12

score 36 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 05 '18 at 20:41

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Phrasing and punctuation is crucial in wordplay puzzles, and I'm not sure if I agree with the particular ones used here.

However, my guess is

inland

which kind of works, because

"la" is the middle, "in" the beginning, "and" the end.

answered Jan 05 '18 at 20:41

Bass

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If I were to use commas, this problem would be too easy :))) – NL628 Jan 05 '18 at 20:42

score 23 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 05 '18 at 20:49

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I think it is

inland

because

la is in the middle, in is in the beginning, and and is at the end.

answered Jan 05 '18 at 20:49

Lifesaving Linen

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Sorry LifesavingLinen but I just realized that @Bass posted before you did. – NL628 Jan 07 '18 at 08:08

score 14 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 05 '18 at 20:28

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I'm going to post an incorrect answer without hiding it so no one feels the need to re-post this answer. :))))

I think the answer is "lalala".

answered Jan 05 '18 at 20:28

NL628

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@NL628 Sorry but this is not correct. :) – NL628 Jan 05 '18 at 20:29
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I have another :) – Will Crawford Jan 06 '18 at 02:22

score 6 · Answer 4 · answered Jan 06 '18 at 02:24

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Another incorrect answer:

SCALES

because

do re mi fa sol LA ti do, and there are modes which have the LA at the beginning, and at the end, and (the other five) in the middle.

answered Jan 06 '18 at 02:24

Will Crawford

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yess even better than mine – NL628 Jan 06 '18 at 08:13
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This is better than the correct answer, as it doesn't depend on misinterpreting grammar and punctuation. – piojo Jan 08 '18 at 07:29

score 6 · Answer 5 · answered Jan 06 '18 at 08:52

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The correct answer already got accepted,this is just a try

INLAIN

It contains

"LA" in the middle, "IN" the beginning and at the end.

The title : Huh? That's a word?

I am also asking, is that a word. :P

answered Jan 06 '18 at 08:52

ran

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A major difficulty is the improbability of the verb inlie whose past participle this would be. – Kaz Jan 06 '18 at 11:17
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@Kaz Improbable or not this gets used in art, construction, and craftsman circles. It might not even be officially correct but it does see some use. – Caleb Jan 06 '18 at 13:42
@Caleb Are you sure you're not, rather, thinking of inlay? – Kaz Jan 06 '18 at 20:26
@Kaz That would be the (admittedly much more common) noun form, not the (also sometimes used) past participle form. – Caleb Jan 07 '18 at 07:05
@Caleb it seems to be an incorrect or at leaset almost-never-used version of the past participle. I only know it as a regular verb, and ngrams say the same: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=inlain%2C+inlaid&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cinlain%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cinlaid%3B%2Cc0. – rumtscho Jan 07 '18 at 19:40
@Caleb I mean to inlay which goes to inlaid. – Kaz Jan 10 '18 at 12:05

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