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Amazing World of Giant & Dwarf English Words and Sentences

Amazing World of English Giant & Dwarf Words & Sentences. Indranil SarkarEnglish is the undisputed global language of modern world. It is probably the most unorthodox and most flexible language in the world having innumerable special features. In course of the long passage of more than 600 years, it has acquired infinite varieties. Creation of giant- words or sentences is one such queer quality of English. Right from Shakespeare there are several eminent authors who created different specialties in English language by dint of their golden-imagination, sheer intelligence and natural genius. Sometimes such eminent authors have become immortal not for their literary pieces but for their creation of such apparently whimsical very-long words or sentences created just for fun or for expre ssing a particular sensation. Let us look into a few of them and try to grasp the fun-and amazement inherent in them. Let us begin with‘Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobi';‘Hippopotomonstr osesquipedaliophobia' is a word extended from hippopotomon strosesquipedalian. And it means 'the fear of long words, itself being one such'. How funny! Isn't it? If we go through the Oxford Dictionaries online, we will amaze to confront with so many long words in the domain of place names, in technical matters and in general literature. For example ---1.Antidisestablishmentarianism is a 28 lettered non-coined and non-technical word. The word means, according Funk & Wagnall's New Standard Dictionary of the English Language, "a doctrine of opposition to disestablishment (withdrawal of state patronage, support, or exclusive recognition from a church)".It is said to have been used once by British Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone (1809 - 1898).

2. Floccinaucinihilipilification is another one, which means 'the estimation of so mething as worthless'. It consists of a series of Latin words meaning "nothing" and defined as "the act of estimating something as worthless"; its usage has been recorded as far back as 1741.

3. Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconios is a word having 45 letters meaning a supposed lung disease.

4. Hepaticocholecystostcholecystenterostomy is another word having 40 letters; it is found in Goulds Medical Dictionary. It is defined as "the surgical formation of a passage between the gall bladder and hepaticduct, on the one hand, and between the intestine and he gall bladder, on the other"

5. The 51 lettered word Osseocarnisanguineovisce ricartilagininervomedullary is a term that describes the structure of the human body; it occurs in Heading Hall (1861), a novel by Thomas Love Peacock.

6.Aequeosalinocalcalinoceraceoaluminoscupreovitriolic consists of 52 letters. It describes the composition of the spa waters at Bristol, in Gloucestershire, Eng land. The word was coined by an English medical writer, Dr. Edward Strother (167 5-1737). The 20-volume historical Oxford English Dictionary includes other very long word s, most of which are highly technical. These include:-

a.Otorhinolaryngological- 22 letters

b.Immunoelectrophoretically- 25 letters

c.Psychophysicotherapeutics- 25 letters

d.Thyroparathyroidectomized- 25 letters

e.Pneumoencephalographicall- 26 letters

f.Radioimmunoelectrophoresis- 26 letters

g.Psychoneuroendocrinological- 27 letters

h.Hepaticocholangiogastrostomy- 28 letters

i.Spectrophotofluorometrically-        28 letters   and

j.Pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism- 30 letters

B.Funny Giant English Place-names: Again, the longest officially recognized place name in an English-speaking count ryisTaumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenu- akitanatahu possessing 85 letters. This is a hill in New Zealand. The name is from the Māori language. In Canada, the longest place name is Dysart, Dudley,Harcourt,Guilford, Harburn, Bruton, Havelock, EyreandClyde, a town ship in Ontario. It is composed of 68 letters.The 58----character name Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogog- och is the famous name of a town on Anglesey, an island of Wales. This place's name is actually 51 letters long, as certain character groups in Welsh are considered as one letter, for instance ll, ng and ch. It is generally agreed, however, that this invented name, adopted in the mid-19th century, was contrived solely to be the longest name of any town in Britain. The official name of the place is Llanfairpwllgwyngyll, commonly abbreviated to Llanfairpwll or the somewhat jo- cular Llanfair PG. The longest place name possessing 45 letters in the United States, is Chargoggagoggmanch- auggagoggchaubunagungamaugg. It is a lake in Webster, Massachusetts. It means "Fishing Place at the Boundaries — Neutral Meeting Grounds" and is sometimes facetiously translated as "You fish your side of the water, I fish my side of the water, nobody fishes the middle". The lake is also known as Lake Webster. The longest official geographical name in Australia is MamungkukumpurangkuntjunyaHill. It has 26 letters and is a Pitjantjatjara word meaning "Where the Devil urinates". In Ireland, the longest English place name at 22 letters is Muckanaghederdauhaulia (from the Irishlanguage, M uiceanach Idir Dhá Sháile, meaning "pig-marsh between two saltwater inlets" in County Galway. If this is disallowed for being derived from Irish, or not a town, then the longest having 19 letters is Newtownmountkennedy in County Wicklow. KrungThepMahanakhonAmonRattanakosinMahintharaYuthayaMahadilokPhopNoppharatRatchathaniBuriromUdomra- tchaniwetMahasathanAmonPimanAwatanSathitSakkathattiyaWitsanukamPrasit is the ceremonial name of Bangkok, Thailand; it has the Guinness World record for longest place name in the world .It is ,of course, not an English word, whatsoever. C.Giant words are frequently used in Advertisement,Films and TVshows: There are, again , some other long words having frequent usage inCommercial Ads., TV and Cinema shows such as ---a. "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious", the 34-letter title of a song from the movie Mary Poppins, does appear in several dictionaries, but only as a proper no un defined in reference to the song title. The attributed meaning is "a word that you say when you don t know what to say." The idea and invention of the word is credited to songwriters Robert and Richard Sherman. b. In 1973, Pepsi s advertising agency gave the word BoaseMassimiPollittused a 100-letter but several word term "Lipsmackinthirstquenchinacetastinmotivatingoodbuzzincool-talkinhighwalkinfastlivineverg ivincoolfizzin" in TV and film advertising. c. In 1975, the following term composed of 71-letters (but actually a combinatio n of several-words) was used as an advertising jingle. The term is Twoallbeefpattie sspecialsaucelettucecheesepicklesonionsonasesameseedbun; which reads as : two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesa me seed bun and it was first used in a McDonald's Restaurant advertisement .It described the Big Mac sandwich.

C. Giant words used in Literature:-

1.In his play Assemblywomen (Ecclesiazousae), the ancient Greek comedic playwrig ht Aristophanes created a word of 183 letters, which describes a dish by stringi ng together its ingredients: Lopadotemakhoselakhogameokraniolei psanodrimypotrimmatosilphiokarabom elitokatakekhymenokikhlepikossyphophattoperisteralektryonoptokephalliokigklopeleo lagōiosiraiobaphētraganopterýgōn. This is the Englisht transliteration of a Greek word that occurs in Aristophanes play The Ecclesiazusae. The word is defined as "a goulash composed of all the leftovers from the meals of the last two weeks", or "has". A more, det ailed translation is, of course,"plattero-filletomulleti-turboto-cranio-morselo-pickl eoacido-silphio-honeyo-pouredonthetopoftheouzelo-throstl eo-cushato-culvero-roastingo-marrowo-dippero-levereto-s yrupo-gibleto-wings. 2.Antipericatametaanaparcircumvolutiorectumgustpoopsofthecoprofied,is again , aw ord formed of 50 letters. This is the title of a book on a shelf in a library in the classic ribald work Gargantua and Pantagruel, by Francois Rabelais.

3. Praetertranssubstantiationalistically is a word credited with 37 letters. Thi s was used by Mark McShane in his novel Untimely Ripped (1963). It means the act of surpassing the act of transubstantiation, which refers specifically to the t ransformation of the bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ during the Roman Catholic mass.

4.Henry Carey s farce Chrononhotonthologos (1743) holds the opening line: "Aldiborontiphoscophornio! Where left you Chrononhotonthologos ?"

5.James Joyce made up nine 101-letter words in his novel FinnegansWake,the most famous of which is Bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntu- onnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk. Appearing on the first page, it allegedly represents the symbolic thunderclap associated with the fall of Adam and  Eve.  As it appears nowhere else except in reference to this passage, it is generally not accepted as a real word. Sylvia Plath made mention of it in her semi-auto biographical novel The Bell Jar, when the protagonist was reading Finnegans Wake. . 6.Donaudampfschiffahrtselektrizitätenhauptbetriebswerkbauunterbeamtengesellschaft, is the longest published word in German.

7.Honorificabilitudinita-Tibus (27letters): The word occurs in Shakespeares play Love's Labour's Lost, and means "with honorablenesses." It can also be viewed as a rearrangement of the Latinsentence "Hi ludi F. Baconis nati tuiti orbi", meaning: "These plays, F.Bacon's offspring, are preserved for the world. This twist has been used to support the"Baconian theory" that Francis Bacon wrote Shakespeare's plays.

D. Funny Longest English Sentences:Till date Nigel Tomm is credited to publish the longest sentence in literature.It contains only 2.4 million words,the longest published word,ha!ha!. The sentence is contained in four volumes of Nigel Tomm's novel "The Blah Story," i.e., the sentence occupies volumes 16, 17, 18 and 19, while "The Blah Story, Volume 19" is almost              entirely occupied by one word which contains all previously known longest words ( except chemical names).The sentence contains 2,403,109 words, 15,403,732 charact ers (with spaces) and 3,248 pages. "The Blah Story, Volume 19 , "which is 812 pages long contains only 11 words, one of which ‘somewhenot…dingown' consists of 3,609,750 letters. The word means the current day or date between real and imaginable today. The Blah Story, Volume 10 contains 2,087,214-letter word which means something like ‘a girl' or ‘a bitch'; this word is not included in the 3.6M-letter word. Theretofore, the longest published sentence in English is written by Nigel Tomm. Let's see an excerpt to view a highlight of the sentence : "As no one was blah any blah to blah , and no one blah needed blah, blah quietly blah blah..."source----preardon@trib une.com /FEATURED ARTICLES/. Traditionally, the credit of having the longest sentence in English literature has been given to James Joyce for his novel "Ulysses" which contains 4,391 words. However, this record was surpassed in 2001 by Jonathan Coe in his book "The Rotter's Club" which contains a sentence of 13,955 words long. There is also a Polish novel "Gates of Paradise" written by Jerzy Andrzejewski, and published in 1960, with about 40,000 word sentence. Again. there is a Czech novel that consists of one long sentence (128 pages long ) "Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age" by Bohumil Hrabal. But still again,the new owner of the record for the longest sentence in published literature is Mathias Enard for his 517-page French novel "Zone." In fact, the entire novel, except for a few pages of flashbacks, is made up of a single 150, 000-word sentence.

E.Smallest and Funniest words:Now, let's see a few other fun facts of English language----- The longest word in the English language with only one vowel is strengths which is made up of nine letters. If we do not count Y from its part-time vowel role then, the word glycyphyllin which is a photochemical compound, has a single vowel  and consists of twelve letters.The only word devoid of vowel and semi-vowel and not an abbreviation is THN, as in "the nth degree, power, etc." There are many words which contain letters arranged alphabetical order such as a lmost, begin and biopsy but even more interesting are those whose vowels are in the exact order in which we first learned them, a, e, i, o, u and yes, sometimes y. One such word is ArsEnIOUs (arsenious), which means something derived from or co ntaining arsenic. Another is sUbcOntInEntAl, while at first glance subcontinental doesn't appear to fit the alphabetical mold, it does; it just does so backward. Another backward vowel in order word is dUOlItErAl (duoliteral). In yet another example, fAcEtIOUslY (facetiously) the often misunderstood Y has been included here. So far the longest word known to have all five vowels is order (for those of us who  overlook the Y as a vowel) is phragelliorhynchus with eighteen letters, while not found in the dictionary it is widely recognized in the scientific realm as a protozoan.( Crystal Cook) Again,Jason Lusk in the web page of Helium says--Although the question of the smallest but most meaningful word in the English language seems subjective;Different people may give different answers;But in a story, the most powerful word is none other than the one letter long: "I."  Fear Incarnate also agrees to this, and in the web page of Helium says---"I" is one of the smallest words in English, along with "a".These are the two smallest, yet, by far there is no more powerful word than "I" in the English language. "I" is more than just a significance of self in a sentence. And, here is the last but not at all the least unique word "DREAMT". Yes, the present Oxford Dictionary having more than 600000 words and the fruit of a group of scholars' laborious work for nearly 7 Decades possesses only a single word ending with ‘MT', and it is DREAMT. How Now, Really amazing,isn't it?

F. FACTS ABOUT OED:- Despite its Herculean contents of more than 600000 words, and required more than 70years to complete, the Oxford English Dictionary is neither the world's largest nor earliest dictionary. The Dutch dictionary WoordenboekderNederlandscheTaal, is the largest whileThe Kangxi dictionary of China is the earliest dictionary which was published in 1716. According to the publishers, it would take a single person 120 years to key in text to convert it to machine readable form which consists a total of nearly 60 million words of the OED second edition, 60 years to proofread it, and 540 megabytes to store it electronically. OED is considered the Bible of English language. The final entry of the Dictionary was completed on 19 April 1928, the full Dictionary followed immediately.One of the assistants of Mr.Murry named Jacob Minor was a scholar-lunatic who contributed the most.

Source:www.en.wikipedea.org Source-Waking Up With The Emerald City/March 12, 2000 &NEW YORK, NEW YORK June 11, 2008 Books News RSS The Blah Story by Nigel Tomm books Oops Thoon / Oops Thoon (PRLEAP.COM) & collected by -- John Newmark - Nov, 2003 & Featured articles on the pages of web page Helium.

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