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owl
add et and you get owlet, which is a shorter owl.
add et and you get owlet, which is a shorter owl.
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ShortMJMcCready wrote: ↑Wed Mar 10, 2021 3:45 amWhich word becomes shorter if you add two letters to it?
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Can I have arbitrage then?
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Sorry, it was my attempt at humour.
An arbitrageur is someone who takes up opposing positions on a financial instrument and benefits from the spread. They are both 'long' and 'short' so I guess they could be described as a 'shorter', but I am slightly worried we are going to get transferred to the pedantics' thread.
What is the longest word in the English language? and I think we really need two answers here.
An arbitrageur is someone who takes up opposing positions on a financial instrument and benefits from the spread. They are both 'long' and 'short' so I guess they could be described as a 'shorter', but I am slightly worried we are going to get transferred to the pedantics' thread.
What is the longest word in the English language? and I think we really need two answers here.
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p.s. You cannot have language
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In my school days it was antidisestablishmentarianism. Then there was something beginning 'flocci....'Matthew Turner wrote: ↑Wed Mar 10, 2021 12:10 pm
What is the longest word in the English language? and I think we really need two answers here.
I think now there may be a lengthy scientific compound word, but I wouldn't be surprised if there is a wordplay answer too.
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No points at all there Paul, sorry
Edit: probably being a bit harsh there, I guess there is something in the 'wordplay' comment
Edit: probably being a bit harsh there, I guess there is something in the 'wordplay' comment
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In my schooldays, it was "smiles", as there is a mile between the first and the last letter.Matthew Turner wrote: ↑Wed Mar 10, 2021 12:10 pmWhat is the longest word in the English language? and I think we really need two answers here.
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Brilliant, and it still is. I don't think skilometres is a word.
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floccinaucinihilipilification. If I've counted, and spelt, right it's one letter longer than antidisestablishmentarianism.Paul Habershon wrote: ↑Wed Mar 10, 2021 12:21 pmIn my school days it was antidisestablishmentarianism. Then there was something beginning 'flocci....'
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Nowhere near long enough though.
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pneumonovolcanoultramicroscopicsilicoconiosis (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.
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.