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Thursday, April 14, 2005
Methionylth...isoleucine
hmmm ever wondered what is the longest word in the world? i did off-hand, but never looked up on it... thanks to calvin, now i know, and now you know too =)
of course we are not counting the medical or biological terms. if we do, we can face potentially crazy words here... the term Methionylthreonylthreonyl...isoleucine, the longest-known coding sequence, contains 189,819 letters (click on the word to see the actual word). haha...
so only considering normal english words in their root form (ie. no prefices and suffices), the longest word recorded in the Guiness Book of Records is floccinaucinihilipilification (29 letters), which defines the act of estimating as worthless. next time your maths tutor or econs tutor asks you to estimate, remember to tell him this... haha
and the longest word containing 1 and 1 vowel only is strengths. hmm.. who would have thought?
the longest officially recognized place name in an English-speaking country is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu (85 letters) which is a hill in New Zealand.
and who remembers this 71-letter Twoallbeefpattiesspecialsaucelettucecheesepicklesonionsonasesameseedbun McD chant besides me? haha remembered my sister reciting this chant to get some free burgers in the promotion when we were young..
all these and more can be found here, the best encyclopedia in the web IMO.
posted by winz at 1:30 PM
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