quote:Originally posted by Andy-Laa: The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
You also posted this:
"The longest word in the English language has 189,819 letters. Methionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylarginyl...isoleucine."
So, which is it?
They're two different things though - the longest according to the Oxford English dictionary and the longest which isn't in the Oxford dictionary - they wouldn't put that one in the dictionary - it would literally take up some scores of pages and who really needs to know the word?
The Japanese alphabet has no "L-sound" in it and that leads to Japanese people having huge difficulty pronouncing "Ls" in English spoken language - I suppose seeing an L to them is similar to us seeing Arabic and being asked to pronounce it...
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^^One of my jobs a while back I delivered office furniture for a stint in a small box 2tonne truck and I was told to head to a Suburb on the other side of the City which was a 40-50minute drive. Onece I got there I radio'ed in and asked for the exact address. I was told some number and the street "Ragoon Way". I said 'Roger' and started to look thru the road map (Ok kids, before GPS, there was a thing called a 'road-map' is what us older folk used to navigate and get around lol. ).
I was trying to look thru the index & got a radio-call from dispatch askin' am I there yet as it was urgent. I said "no" I couldn't find it. My boss sounded angry and told me to hurry. Tried again and said "it ain't on the map". They tried at dispatch and said they said they couldn't find it either and told me to stand-by. Just sittin' in the middle of nowhere waitin' for further instructions. Got the call half'n hour later it was a Japanese lady who was the customer and she pronounced Ragoon when what we were after was "LAGOON WAY" in which case I was 5mins from there ... Everyone had a big laugh when I got back to base
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quote:Originally posted by National: The word "queue" is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.
I sooooooo want to find another one now!
London is the only city to hold the Olympics 3 times.
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in which case I was 5mins from there 
