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One is a whopping 45 letters long. Back in grade school, words like "onomatopoeia" and "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" seemed insanely complicated and long.
The longest word in any given language depends on the word formation rules of each specific language, and on the types of words allowed for consideration. Agglutinative languages allow for the creation of long words via compounding. Words consisting of hundreds, or even thousands of characters have been coined. Even non-agglutinative languages ...
The longest word typable by alternating left and right hands is antiskepticism. [32] On a Dvorak keyboard, the longest "left-handed" words are epopoeia, jipijapa, peekapoo, and quiaquia. [36] Other such long words are papaya, Kikuyu, opaque, and upkeep. [37]
Phonaesthetics (also spelled phonesthetics in North America) is the study of the beauty and pleasantness associated with the sounds of certain words or parts of words.The term was first used in this sense, perhaps by J. R. R. Tolkien, [1] during the mid-20th century and derives from Ancient Greek φωνή (phōnḗ) 'voice, sound' and αἰσθητική (aisthētikḗ) 'aesthetics'.
I know the longest word in the whole English language,” Jimmy tells Jenny by the playground swings. It's antidisestablishmentarianism. Jenny slurps up the last of her juice box, unimpressed.
This is a list of candidates for the longest English word of one syllable, i.e. monosyllables with the most letters. A list of 9,123 English monosyllables published in 1957 includes three ten-letter words: scraunched, scroonched, and squirreled. [1] Guinness World Records lists scraunched and strengthed. [2] Other sources include words as long ...
Graying slush at the edge of snowdrifts faded, along with a long stretch of cemetery I had to walk past, where piles of trash, cigarette butts, and dirty ice were shored up against the forlorn ...
"I am not afraid to die." [3]— Philip Danforth Armour, American industrialist, founder of Armour and Company (6 January 1901) "Bertie." [4]— Victoria, queen regnant of the United Kingdom (22 January 1901), calling to her eldest son and heir, Albert, Prince of Wales