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Schmaltzed and strengthed (10 letters) appear to be the longest monosyllabic words recorded in The Oxford English Dictionary, while scraunched and scroonched appear to be the longest monosyllabic words recorded in Webster's Third New International Dictionary; but squirrelled (11 letters) is the longest if pronounced as one syllable only (as ...
But, Parade is here to tell you the longest word, accompanied by the 20 longest words in English and their meanings. ... Pronunciation: thai-roh-para-thai-roi-dek-tuh-maizd Meaning: ...
What is the longest word in the world that takes 3 hours to say? You will be surprised to know that the longest word in English has 1,89,819 letters and will take you 3 and an half hours to say. The longest word in any given language. The disease can cause some death! SO BE CAREFUL!!!! 166.216.159.173 01:06, 25 November 2021 (UTC)
Subsequently, the word was used in Frank Scully's puzzle book Bedside Manna, after which time, members of the N.P.L. campaigned to include the word in major dictionaries. [9] [10] This 45-letter word, referred to as "p45", [11] first appeared in the 1939 supplement to the Merriam-Webster New International Dictionary, Second Edition. [12]
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.
Sc.Am. [3] Meaning "travelled by brougham", by analogy with bussed, biked, carted etc. Rhymes with fumed, zoomed. Suggested by poet William Harmon in a competition to find the longest monosyllable. squirrelled / ˈ s k w ɜːr l d / 11 LPD; [4] MWOD [5] Compressed American pronunciation of a word which in British RP always has two syllables ...
At 58 characters it is the longest place name in the United Kingdom and second longest official one-word place name in the world. SEE MORE: Watch Naomi Watts pronounce the longest town name in Britain
This word, whencesoever it comes, is often mentioned as the longest word known. [61] Commenting on this, antiquarian Joseph Hunter wrote in 1845: This Dr. Johnson calls a word, and says that "it is the longest word known." This is a very extraordinary hallucination of a mind so accustomed to definition as his was, and so apt to form definitions ...