Thursday, December 07, 2006

More than a mouthful...

and I am not talking about Hooters either! Randomly stumbled across this today. Interesting. I did not even try to pronounce it.


English

Adjective

aequeosalinocalcalinoceraceoaluminosocupreovitriolic

  1. With fifty-two letters, this is a claimant to the title of the longest word in the English language. The word is attributed to Dr. Edward Strother (1675–1737), who devised it to describe the spa waters at Bristol/Bath, England.

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