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An Accommodating Advertisement and an Awkward Accident, the 427-word winning entry in Tit-Bits Magazine's Christmas 1884 competition for "the longest sensible sentence, every word of which begins with the same letter". [5] Molly Bloom's soliloquy in the James Joyce novel Ulysses (1922) contains a sentence of 3,687 words [6]
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is the longest word in the English language. The word can be analysed as follows: Pneumono: from ancient Greek (πνεύμων, pneúmōn) which means lungs; ultra: from Latin, meaning beyond; micro and scopic: from ancient Greek, meaning small looking, referring to the fineness of ...
In the first example, without an LRM control character, a web browser will render the ++ on the left of the "C" because the browser recognizes that the paragraph is in a right-to-left text and applies punctuation, which is neutral as to its direction, according to the direction of the adjacent text. The LRM control character causes the ...
From technical to whimsical, prepare for your vocabulary to be stretched with 20 of the longest words in English. Plus, find out what they mean. Related: 55 Examples of Onomatopoeia
The longest word without any of the main five vowels but including Y: Twyndyllyng Main article: English words without vowels The longest words recorded in OED with each vowel only once, and in order, are abstemiously , affectiously , and tragediously (OED).
All about the Oxford comma, including when it may or may not be necessary.
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.
Scriptio continua (Latin for 'continuous script'), also known as scriptura continua or scripta continua, is a style of writing without spaces or other marks between the words or sentences. The form also lacks punctuation , diacritics , or distinguished letter case .