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Which noun phrase has most letters in it?
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And which poison starts with six consonants and ends with nine?
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Kevin Thurlow wrote: ↑Wed Mar 10, 2021 1:16 pmAnd which poison starts with six consonants and ends with nine?
strychnine
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I'm stuck on a crossword clue - "A postman's round".
When inevitably you're asked "How many letters?"
The response is "************ hundreds!"
The word before hundreds can be added at your discretion depending on who you're speaking to!
When inevitably you're asked "How many letters?"
The response is "************ hundreds!"
The word before hundreds can be added at your discretion depending on who you're speaking to!
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Royal Mail Pillar Box?
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ha ha yes close, I was thinking 'Post Office'.
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Congratulations, I think you have the volcano bit occurring too early, but that is it.Kevin Thurlow wrote: ↑Wed Mar 10, 2021 12:52 pmpneumonovolcanoultramicroscopicsilicoconiosis (from memory)
like most scientific words, you split it up to say it...
pneumono-volcano-ultra-micro-scopic-silico-coniosis
And the earlier long one was floccinaucinihilipilification (the art of considering something as worthless) - hence the "nihili" in the middle.
I did have an example of a very long chemical name (most of which have numbers and hyphens), but this was split by brackets only, and that was much longer than that "p" word.
The "international nonproprietary name" abamectin is a bit easier than its IUPAC names - see http://www.alanwood.net/pesticides/index_cn_frame.html
When I started getting good at IUPAC names, my trainer gave me that to name to shut me up for a day or so.
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What word is pronounced differently if the first letter is a capital.
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Ouch, that is a hard one, possibly French by origin.
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Alex,
I hadn't thought of that one, but that wasn't what I was looking for.
I hadn't thought of that one, but that wasn't what I was looking for.
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Nice, or for those in the north of England, Bath.
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I think I am going to have to give you that one, but that wasn't what I was thinking of either, no place names.