Cadang Cadang
You know cadang cadang? That very expensive coconut crab. It is also famous for another thing. Repeaters. "Repeaters" are BUMPETY-BUMPETY, BUMPITY-BUMPITY, POCKETA-POCKETA (an engine sound, OED), ANTINGANTING (a Philippine charm or amulet), CHIQUICHIQUI (a South American palm), TANGANTANGAN (the castor oil plant), KILLEEKILLEE (W2), CADANG-CADANG, ANGANG-ANGANG (a type of Javanese gong), and TRETRETRETRE (the name Malagasy oral tradition gives to a now extinct giant lemur.
HIV VIRUS is an obvious redundancy, since the "v" stands for "virus." Some other common redundancies which include an abbreviation are ATM MACHINE, SALT TALKS, START TALKS, VIN NUMBER, PIN NUMBER, AC CURRENT, DC CURRENT, ISBN NUMBER, DOS OPERATING SYSTEM, ABS BRAKING SYSTEM, DIMM MODULE (Dynamic Inline Memory Module), EFT TRANSFER (Electronic Funds Transfer), EMP PULSE (Electromagnetic Pulse), and MSDS SHEETS (Material Safety Data Sheet). LCD DISPLAY (Liquid Crystal Display) has been suggested for this category, but it may not a redundancy. The first 'display' refers to an individual character (or similar component), the second to the whole array of these. The big display is made up of little displays.
IO (an interjection in Chambers and one of the moons of Jupiter), AI (the three-toed sloth), EO, OK, and AA (rough volcanic rock) seem to be the shortest two-syllable words.
IRAQ is one of the very few words ending in Q. Obscure words ending in Q are: SHOQ, PONTACQ, INUPIAQ (an Eskimo people), SUQ, ZAQAZIQ (or ZAGAZIG, a city in Egypt), ZIA-UL-HAQ (a proper name), N'ASTALIQ, TALAQ (in Chambers), TZADDIQ (in Chambers; can also be spelled TSADDIQ), TRANQ (in OSPD), KANGIQSUALUJJUAQ (an Inuit village in Quebec), KUUJJUAQ (a Canadian village), UMIAQ (a variant spellling of UMIAK, an Eskimo boat, in W2 and W3), SADIQ (a city in India), ABQAIQ (a city in Saudi Arabia), CINQ (an alternative spelling of "cinque," OED), QAZAQ (alternative spelling of "Kazakh," OED), RENCQ (obsolete spelling of "rank," OED), SAMBUQ (alternative spelling of "sambuk," OED) NESTALIQ (alternative spelling of "nastalik," OED).
TAXI is spelled the same way in eleven languages, according to Dixon: English, French, German, Swedish, Spanish, Danish, Norwegian, Dutch, Czech, Slovak, and Portuguese, Hungarian, Romanian and Portuguese. In the Philippines, especially in Manila, they are spelled taksil.
VETO is the same in at least 24 languages: Albanian, Azerbaijani, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Romanian, SerboCroatian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish. In Hungarian it is spelled the same except for a diacritic. In Basque and Tagalog it's spelled 'beto' and in Polish it's 'weto'.
THEREIN is a seven-letter word that contains thirteen words spelled with consecutive letters: the, he, her, er, here, I, there, ere, rein, re, in, therein, and herein [Stuart Kidd]. THITHERWARDS contains 23: thitherward, thither, hi, hit, hithe, hither, hitherward, hitherwards, I, it, ither, the, he, her, er, wa, war, ward, wards, a, ar, ard and ards [álainn cruic]. SHADES contains hades, shade; ades, hade, shad; des, ade, had, sha; es, de, ad, ha, sh; S, E, D, A, H, all of which are in W3
UNCOPYRIGHTABLE (15 letters) is the longest word in common use with no letter appearing more than once. Other such words: SUBDERMATOGLYPHIC (17; not found in any dictionary, but occurring in an article in Annals of Dermatology), MISCONJUGATEDLY (15), DERMATOGLYPHICS (15; Stedman's Electronic Medical Dictionary), AMBIDEXTROUSLY (14), TROUBLEMAKINGS (14), SCHIZOTRYPANUM (14; Stedman's Electronic Medical Dictionary), VESICULOGRAPHY (14; Stedman's Electronic Medical Dictionary), UNDISCOVERABLY (14), BENZHYDROXAMIC (14), HYDROMAGNETICS (14), HYDROPNEUMATIC (14), PSEUDOMYTHICAL (14), SULPHOGERMANIC (14), BRACHYPOLEMIUS (14, a genus of beetle), and MACROXYLETINUS (14, a genus of beetle).
FLOCCINAUCINIHILIPILIFICATION is the longest word that does not contain an E. There is only one word beginning with X in Noah Webster's first dictionary, A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language (1806). The word is XEBEC.
SOS by ABBA was a hit recording with a palindromic title and artist. Palindromic album titles include Ole ELO by the Electric Light Orchestra, LIVE EVIL by Black Sabbath and by Miles Davis, EVIL LIVE by The Misfits, UFO TOFU by Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, AJA by Steely Dan, and AOXOMOXOA by the Grateful Dead. AHA is a Norwegian pop group.
OUENOUAOU (a stream here in the Philippines?) has vowels for 8 of its 9 letters and may be the longest place name with one consonant. PUNAAUIA (a village in Tahiti) has vowels for 6 of its 8 letters.
HIV VIRUS is an obvious redundancy, since the "v" stands for "virus." Some other common redundancies which include an abbreviation are ATM MACHINE, SALT TALKS, START TALKS, VIN NUMBER, PIN NUMBER, AC CURRENT, DC CURRENT, ISBN NUMBER, DOS OPERATING SYSTEM, ABS BRAKING SYSTEM, DIMM MODULE (Dynamic Inline Memory Module), EFT TRANSFER (Electronic Funds Transfer), EMP PULSE (Electromagnetic Pulse), and MSDS SHEETS (Material Safety Data Sheet). LCD DISPLAY (Liquid Crystal Display) has been suggested for this category, but it may not a redundancy. The first 'display' refers to an individual character (or similar component), the second to the whole array of these. The big display is made up of little displays.
IO (an interjection in Chambers and one of the moons of Jupiter), AI (the three-toed sloth), EO, OK, and AA (rough volcanic rock) seem to be the shortest two-syllable words.
IRAQ is one of the very few words ending in Q. Obscure words ending in Q are: SHOQ, PONTACQ, INUPIAQ (an Eskimo people), SUQ, ZAQAZIQ (or ZAGAZIG, a city in Egypt), ZIA-UL-HAQ (a proper name), N'ASTALIQ, TALAQ (in Chambers), TZADDIQ (in Chambers; can also be spelled TSADDIQ), TRANQ (in OSPD), KANGIQSUALUJJUAQ (an Inuit village in Quebec), KUUJJUAQ (a Canadian village), UMIAQ (a variant spellling of UMIAK, an Eskimo boat, in W2 and W3), SADIQ (a city in India), ABQAIQ (a city in Saudi Arabia), CINQ (an alternative spelling of "cinque," OED), QAZAQ (alternative spelling of "Kazakh," OED), RENCQ (obsolete spelling of "rank," OED), SAMBUQ (alternative spelling of "sambuk," OED) NESTALIQ (alternative spelling of "nastalik," OED).
TAXI is spelled the same way in eleven languages, according to Dixon: English, French, German, Swedish, Spanish, Danish, Norwegian, Dutch, Czech, Slovak, and Portuguese, Hungarian, Romanian and Portuguese. In the Philippines, especially in Manila, they are spelled taksil.
VETO is the same in at least 24 languages: Albanian, Azerbaijani, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Romanian, SerboCroatian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish. In Hungarian it is spelled the same except for a diacritic. In Basque and Tagalog it's spelled 'beto' and in Polish it's 'weto'.
THEREIN is a seven-letter word that contains thirteen words spelled with consecutive letters: the, he, her, er, here, I, there, ere, rein, re, in, therein, and herein [Stuart Kidd]. THITHERWARDS contains 23: thitherward, thither, hi, hit, hithe, hither, hitherward, hitherwards, I, it, ither, the, he, her, er, wa, war, ward, wards, a, ar, ard and ards [álainn cruic]. SHADES contains hades, shade; ades, hade, shad; des, ade, had, sha; es, de, ad, ha, sh; S, E, D, A, H, all of which are in W3
UNCOPYRIGHTABLE (15 letters) is the longest word in common use with no letter appearing more than once. Other such words: SUBDERMATOGLYPHIC (17; not found in any dictionary, but occurring in an article in Annals of Dermatology), MISCONJUGATEDLY (15), DERMATOGLYPHICS (15; Stedman's Electronic Medical Dictionary), AMBIDEXTROUSLY (14), TROUBLEMAKINGS (14), SCHIZOTRYPANUM (14; Stedman's Electronic Medical Dictionary), VESICULOGRAPHY (14; Stedman's Electronic Medical Dictionary), UNDISCOVERABLY (14), BENZHYDROXAMIC (14), HYDROMAGNETICS (14), HYDROPNEUMATIC (14), PSEUDOMYTHICAL (14), SULPHOGERMANIC (14), BRACHYPOLEMIUS (14, a genus of beetle), and MACROXYLETINUS (14, a genus of beetle).
FLOCCINAUCINIHILIPILIFICATION is the longest word that does not contain an E. There is only one word beginning with X in Noah Webster's first dictionary, A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language (1806). The word is XEBEC.
SOS by ABBA was a hit recording with a palindromic title and artist. Palindromic album titles include Ole ELO by the Electric Light Orchestra, LIVE EVIL by Black Sabbath and by Miles Davis, EVIL LIVE by The Misfits, UFO TOFU by Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, AJA by Steely Dan, and AOXOMOXOA by the Grateful Dead. AHA is a Norwegian pop group.
OUENOUAOU (a stream here in the Philippines?) has vowels for 8 of its 9 letters and may be the longest place name with one consonant. PUNAAUIA (a village in Tahiti) has vowels for 6 of its 8 letters.
posted by Unknown at 2:24 PM
3 Comments:
how about internationalizationalism or intercontinentalizationalism or globalizationalism? :)
oo nga ano?
Eto pa: antidisetablishmentarianism
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