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To: GreenAccord

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_word_in_English

**...while scraunched is the longest monosyllabic word in current usage.**

10 letters


656 posted on 03/02/2006 1:38:19 PM PST by King Prout (many accuse me of being overly literal... this would not be a problem if many were not under-precise)
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To: King Prout

Yeah, the link I supplied cites that word too, but it states...

"The OED also cites a single instance of the ten-letter word scraunched, from the 1620 English translation of Don Quixote."

So, we could translate a word from another language with similar results, I suppose.

**schrenghted**

Now, all I have to do is find an untranslated book written in Farsi!


658 posted on 03/02/2006 1:42:26 PM PST by GreenAccord (I move for a bad trial thingy!)
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To: King Prout
Floccinaucinihilipilification

Which, because of that dumbass commercial, I looked up, learned how to spell, and have actually used on a thread before...

661 posted on 03/02/2006 1:44:53 PM PST by Dead Corpse (I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.)
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