Trivia - Longest English Word And Carbon Footprint

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Posted: 17 years ago

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What is the longest English word? We do have genuine (if rather obviously deliberate) examples in our files of antidisestablishmentarianism (28 letters) and floccinaucinihilipilification (29 letters), which are listed in some of our larger dictionaries. Other words (mainly technical ones) recorded in the complete Oxford English Dictionary include: otorhinolaryngological (22 letters), immunoelectrophoretically (25 letters), psychophysicotherapeutics (25 letters), thyroparathyroidectomized (25 letters), pneumoencephalographically (26 letters), radioimmunoelectrophoresis (26 letters), psychoneuroendocrinological (27 letters) hepaticocholangiogastrostomy (28 letters), spectrophotofluorometrically (28 letters), pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism (30 letters). (Dexter)

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Posted: 17 years ago

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We have got so used to using articles without bothering about our carbon footprint. Think about this

* A typical school student uses one ballpoint refill in 2 days. And a typical school has about 1000 students who use ball pens. That adds up to 1000 empty plastic refills every 2 days or 15000 refills per month or about 100000 refills per year per school

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Posted: 17 years ago

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There is a word in the English language where the first two letters indicate a male, the first three letters indicate a female, the first four indicate a great man and the whole word is a great woman. The word is

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