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First I’d like to apologize to everyone who’d been reading my blog, I know i’ve got a few mistakes in my post at times, but u see my brain thinks to fast for my hands to even start typing a new word so sometimes you just gotta fill in the blanks ey… <<I’m serious, its embarassing but I dont care, its inevitable! and its MY BLOG!..my thoughts, my views, my life! >> enuff of my rants…
anyway, in today’s episod, I bring you yet another..do you know? blog post…ehehe…

DO YOU KNOW??? What’s the longest word in
the English language?

We searched on longest word in the English language and found a number of sites that
deliberate over this very question. The answer really depends on what qualifies
as a word.

For example, chemical names can be thousands
of letters long. If you wrote out the name of a DNA molecule, it would be over
1,000,000,000 letters. But are these really words? It seems even dictionaries
can’t agree. "Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilico-volcanoconiosis"
is the longest word in non-technical English dictionaries, but according to the
Oxford English Dictionary, it is a fictitious word created just to claim the
title of longest.

One of the longest place names is 92 letters, the name of a hill in New Zealand that is typically
called just "Taumata." And for those with a sense of humor,
"smiles" is considered the longest word because there is a
"mile" between the first and last letters. Check out this link;

http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu

Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu
is the Maori (language) placename on an otherwise unremarkable hill which is
305 metres high, close to Porangahau, south of Waipukurau in southern Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand. The placename is often shortened to
Taumata by the locals for ease of conversation.

The placename on the sign that marks this hill is spelt as
Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu
which roughly translates into English as The brow [or summit] of the hill [or
place], where Tamatea, the man with the big knees, who slid [down], climbed
[up] and swallowed mountains, [to travel the land], [who is] known as the Land
Eater, played [on] his [nose] flute to his loved one. At 85 letters, it is one
of the longest placenames in the world. There are several alternative
translations and variants in spelling.

It has also been spelled as:
Tetaumatawhakatangihangakoauaotamateaurehaeaturipukapihimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuaakitanarahu,
which is 92 letters, and has been entered into the Guinness Book of Records as
such.

The longer version of the name is apparently more recent, or
perhaps more formal. There are claims that the longer name, which is now shown
on a sign, has been in use all along by local Maori. The Welsh argue that the
longer name has been contrived to be longer than
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, which some others
argue was contrived to be the longest British place name in the first place.

unbelievable. believe it.

M e L | s S a

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