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This
Free Dictionary link says nothing about 'casket' being a pure Americanism, though the on-line Oxford says that it is 'chiefly N. American'. It is dangerous to be absolute in your language statements, because it takes only a bit of googling of
.uk websites to find examples of caskets as containers for dead people in BrE.
Those of your items which are not containers, are they purely decorative? —
I cannot account for all their purposes, which are myriad. How expensive are they? —
I have no idea. Not very, I suppose, generally. I think that they come in a wide range of prices, though.
Do you have one of them? —
Yes indeed. There is a small one sitting in front of me, whence my word choice. You mean wood, not a derivative of it, like parer or cardboard, right?
— Yes, that's right. «One of each of the paired letters are in each element of the word.»
The word has two elements and there're three repeating letters in it, so what do you mean? That two of the letters are also paired, like in "hassle"?—
That's not what I intended, There are simply "ten letters, three of which are represented twice".
I can tell you that no pair member is juxtaposed to its mate. And as I said, a member of one pair begins each of the two word elements.
But now I have to revise one clue— the word transmogrified during this thread and I got the second component wrong in my head. Serves me right for not writing the word down.
REVISED CLUE ABOUT THE SECOND COMPONENT (PLEASE DISCARD THE OLD CLUE):
The word as a whole remains uncountable. but the second component is also normally uncountable when it stands alone (NOT countable and plural as I stated earlier.... although it can be....)
Aargh. OK— free clues in atonement: It is trisyllabic and traditionally of the genus Salix.