Sunday, October 3, 2010

An interesting article on Wiki

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_words_with_uncommon_properties

The longest words in English 3


The longest place name in the United States (45 letters) is Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg, 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 words in English 2


The longest officially recognized place name in an English-speaking country is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu (85 letters), which is a hill in New Zealand. The name is in the Māori language.

The longest words in English


The 58-character name Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch 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 jocular Llanfair PG.

Sunn O))) - Big Church (megszentségteleníthetetlenségeskedéseitekért)

Hungarian singer Attila Csihar laments the very long word in Hungarian language: "Megszentségteleníthetetlenségeskedéseitekért"

Please try to translate this word into English language. It cannot be done in one word, maybe in one sentence, either. Post your versions as a comment.

See: http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leghosszabb_szavak_list%C3%A1i

and it is also worth checking the coments on Youtube below the video.

http://nancyfriedman.typepad.com/away_with_words/
http://www.americandialect.org/
http://www.languagemonitor.com/