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    Wonderful words

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    Kids' TV taught me about humuhumunukunukuapuaa today!

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reef_triggerfish

    Hawaiians might like Dvoraks hand alternation.  Anyway if you don't want to type it, try and say it.  Sorry I couldn't resist, any other fun words out there?

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    Physicians deafen our ears with the Honorificabilitudinitatibus of their heavenly Panacaea, their sovereign Guiacum.

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    • From: Viken, Norway
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    Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

    Not a word for people who like me don't enjoy same-finger polygrams (in this case, a same-letter tetragram)! :)

    Last edited by DreymaR (25-Mar-2014 09:40:57)

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    Wow.  Never heard abut that one.  You'd need some large envelopes to address the inhabitants.

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    I first learnt about it from the Guiness Book of Records. There's also the Swedish 'spårvagnsaktiebolagsskensmutsskutarepersonalbeklädningsmagasinsförrådsförvaltaren' which probably strikes you as alien but I can assure you it's a real word.

    On Wikipedia, I also found an article with other nice place names. The New Zealand one dwarfs even the Welsh:

    Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu

    It leads to high hand alternation on Colemak. ;)

    Also, a list of long English words with many delightful entries including 'supercalifragilisticexpialidocious'. There's also your beloved 'honorificabilitudinitatibus'! ;)

    Oh, and I do love the words 'abstemiously' and 'facetiously'; I'm sure you know why.

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    When you say someone is being facetious in the UK, it's a little disparaging.  As in: don't be so facetious!  Which is a shame as I like a little wit and good humor.

    Edit:  I thought you just liked the word!  Totally missed the vowel order.

    Last edited by pinkyache (25-Mar-2014 14:21:28)

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    For those who didn't get it: The reason I love those two words is that they list the English vowels in correct order. I had to whoop with delight when I heard this.

    Oh, here's another good one: Sesquipedalism. A long word describing the love for long words, it's literal meaning being 'foot-and-a-half'! How precious.

    That Swedish word up there is a profession: The keeper of the wardrobe of the rail cleaners of the railway stock company! Interestingly, it lists the components in nearly the reverse order as my English translation.

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    I actually practiced the first word by pinkyache here and found it pretty easy to type :D

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