Reply to: Disestablishmentarianism

[NickFitz]

I am Richard Whitely and I claim my one from the top and five from anywhere else, please Carol

Thats X Q K Z and an E. What othewr l;etters do you want?

75, 2, 6, 3, another 3 and 5.

[Charles Foster Kane]

Thanks for correcting me - but you should have given me heaps of abuse too. You won't go far in CUK without giving lots of abuse.

I know, I do have my abusive moments too.

You swine.

[BrilloPad]

Scrabble of course it's the name (proper noun) of a game. Proper nouns have capitals.

Thanks for correcting me - but you should have given me heaps of abuse too. You won't go far in CUK without giving lots of abuse.

[Charles Foster Kane]

I thought it was scrabble. Or is it Scrabble? Any pedants who can correct me pls?

Scrabble of course it's the name (proper noun) of a game. Proper nouns have capitals.

[BrilloPad]

I am Richard Whitely and I claim my one from the top and five from anywhere else, please Carol

Thats X Q K Z and an E. What othewr l;etters do you want?

[BrilloPad]

What do you think this is, Countdown?

I thought it was scrabble. Or is it Scrabble? Any pedants who can correct me pls?

[NickFitz]

What do you think this is, Countdown?

I am Richard Whitely and I claim my one from the top and five from anywhere else, please Carol

[BrilloPad]

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious? Or something else?

hmm - doesn't sound very long - sorry everyone

[NickFitz]

Wot about the thing Mary Poppins said?

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious? Or something else?

[Charles Foster Kane]

It's described by Wikipedia (link above) as a factitious word, in that it was a made-up word describing a non-existent condition, but it was later included in the dictionary (OED 1936 supplement) so, if one is just talking about "the longest word in the dictionary", it's a valid candidate.

What do you think this is, Countdown?

[daviejones]

Or Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakit anatahu...but that's a place name.

[NickFitz]

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is the longest. Wonky Pedia is a parody of Wikipedia, don't cite it as a source in any of your essays.

It's described by Wikipedia (link above) as a factitious word, in that it was a made-up word describing a non-existent condition, but it was later included in the dictionary (OED 1936 supplement) so, if one is just talking about "the longest word in the dictionary", it's a valid candidate.

[BrilloPad]

Wot about the thing Mary Poppins said?

[Bagpuss]

There was a quiz show on BBC2 some years ago where you had to make a long word from 3 random letters where those letters apeared in order. One word would apear nearly every episode it contained so many letters of the alphabet, can't remember what it was??? grrr

[Charles Foster Kane]

according to WonkyPedia that's a made up word

pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism isn't though

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is the longest. Wonky Pedia is a parody of Wikipedia, don't cite it as a source in any of your essays.