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Latest post Tue, Jan 15 2008 1:12 PM by Grammar Geek. 12 replies.
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Sat, 31 Jan 04 07:37 AM
(I registered but didn't seem to accept my pw.)
I got this from a top 10 book of 2002 It's at school so I can't get the exact meaning and all of them for now but here's the longest word not name it said:
>.) Ornicopytheobibliopsychocrystarroscioaerogenethliometeoroaustrohieroanothropoichthyopyrosider-
ochpnomyoalectryoophiobotanopegohydrorhabdocrithoaleuroalphitohalomolybdoclerobeloaxinocoscino-
dactyliogeolithonpessopsephrocatoptrotephraoneirochoonychodactyloarithstichooxogeloscogastro-
gyrocerobletonooenoscapulinaniac
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis comes in at 5 if I remember right tied with supercala..... don't know how to spell it.
Then names I was stunned at these names, I took the reallllly weird ones not all of them:
1.) (This one was split up for some reason.)
Krung thep mahankhan bovern mahihtharayutthaya mahadilok pop noparatratchathani burirom udomratchanivetmasathan amornpiman avatarnsathit sakkathattiyavisnukarmprasit
This is a poetic name of Bangkok, Thailand I believe.
2.) Taumatawhakatangihangakoauaubtamateaturipukakapikimanungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahn
Mauri, hill in New Zealand
3.) Gorsafawddqchaidraigddanheddogleddollonpenrhynareurdreathceredigion
Fairbourne steam railway, Gwyneed, North Wales.
4.) Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrndrobwllllanstysiliogogogoch
Place named for the length of it's tickets by Gwynedd.
6.) Chargoggagoggmanchaugagoggchaubunagangamang
A lake near Webster, Massachusetts a Indian name.
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Eddie L.
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Sun, 01 Feb 04 02:42 AM
Hey, cool, that is the same book I used to post ornicopy-----. I try to get the book every year.
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Guest,
5 yr 61 days ago
"Mauri, hill in New Zealand"
Maori. Maori hill in New Zealand, not Mauri.
Guest,
4 yr 353 days ago
i second that, if you really want to get official it's Maaori or Mãori.
good to know this stuff though, i'm working on pronouncing that first one...
-Zell
Anonymous,
4 yr 104 days ago
ya except a lot of those really long ones could be made up or not tecnically words, just words accepted by society
Anonymous,
3 yr 5 days ago
Ornicopytheobibliopsychocrystarroscioaerogenethliometeoroaustrohieroanothropoichthyopyrosiderochpnomyo- alectryoophiobotanopegohydrorhabdocrithoaleuroalphitohalomolybdoclerobeloaxinocoscinodactyliogeolithon- pessopsephrocatoptrotephraoneirochoonychodactyloarithstichooxogeloscogastrogyrocerobletonooenoscapulinaniac .....gosh...i thought it was a made up word...how doyou even say it?? if we have a compeitiong i will definitly....win!!
Anonymous,
2 yr 241 days ago
That is a really long word wow how do u say it?
11:43:08 AM
Monday, March 12, 2007
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