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From: alanr@rd.bbc.co.uk (Alan Roberts)
Subject: Re: The @ sign: help
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Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 15:29:45 GMT
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Arne Dehli Halvorsen (adh@cx.dnv.no) wrote:
: In article <3neuli$hrt@yama.mcc.ac.uk> mah@sn2.ee.umist.ac.uk (Mathew D. Hendry) writes:


: >Seth B. Darling (sdarling@haverford.edu) wrote:
: >: And "facetiously" is one of the only words in the English language in
: >: which all five vowels are in the traditional order (aeiou)--and there's
: >: even a "y" for those who call that a vowel.

: >On this word curiosity subject, would I be right in saying that
: >"strengths" is the longest mono-sylabic word in the english language?

:  - 9 letters?
: From what I've heard, the title holder is 'broughammed' ("shipped from one 
: place to another in a Brougham horse cab", pronounced 'broomed') - 11 letters.

: I doubt that you would find any text that contains several 'broughammed's.
: (oops, 12 letters, one syllable).

: Certain British names have lost several syllables, though retaining the 
: spelling. (Cholmondeleigh = chumly, Featherstonehaugh = fanshaw)

: I seem to remember a TV thriller in which mr. Broom, mr. Brougham and 
: mr. Bruttenholme were found to be the same man (identical pronunciations, too).

: Anyone Bruttenholmes out there care to comment?
: (oops, 13)

: Arne 

: >Mat.

Now, if you'ld like to try some Welsh, there's always the village in Anglesey:

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwrndrobwllllantisiliogogogoch

That's probably going too far but it does have 4 l's in one row, an 14
consonants in another.

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