Thursday, September 11, 2008

The long and the short of it

In Les Miserables by Victor Hugo is one of the longest sentences that can be spotted. It had eight hundred and twenty-three words, ninety-three commas,fifty-one semi-colonsand four dashes. Presently, William Faulkner's novel Absalam holds the Guinness Book of World for the longest sentence. It has one thousand, two hundred and eighty-seven words.

Want to know which is the longest and shortest name of a railway station in India? The longest one is called 'Venkatanarasimharajuvaripeta' and the shortest is "Ib".

If you suffer from the following phobia 'Hippolomonstrotesquipedaliophobia' halt and read no more, because it describes the fear for long words. The longest word is a forty-five lettered word known as 'pneumonoultramicroscopiicsilicovolcanocaniosis'. It describes a lung disease caused by tiny parts of volcanic dust. Quari-hemi:demisemiquaver is a hundred twenty-eighth note in music.

Barbarygenus is the noise our tummy makes when it rumbles and stermutation is the act of sneezing.

In the English language, there is still a lot of room for learning.

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