query: What is the longest English word?

title: Longest word in English

text: original meaning. The longest word in that dictionary is "electroencephalographically" (27 letters). The longest non-technical word in major dictionaries is "floccinaucinihilipilification" at 29 letters. Consisting of a series of Latin words meaning "nothing" and defined as "the act of estimating something as worthless"; its usage has been recorded as far back as 1741. Ross Eckler has noted that most of the longest English words are not likely to occur in general text, meaning non-technical present-day text seen by casual readers, in which the author did not specifically intend to use an unusually long word. According to Eckler, the longest words

title: Longest word in English

text: major English language dictionaries is "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis", a word that refers to a lung disease contracted from the inhalation of very fine silica particles, specifically from a volcano; medically, it is the same as silicosis. The word was deliberately coined to be the longest word in English, and has since been used in a close approximation of its originally intended meaning, lending at least some degree of validity to its claim. The "Oxford English Dictionary" contains "pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism" (30 letters). "Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary" does not contain "antidisestablishmentarianism" (28 letters), as the editors found no widespread, sustained usage of the word in its

title: Longest words

text: has been certified by the Dutch Language Union (the official Dutch language institute) and is included in many open-source applications, contains the following longest words, which are 40 letters long: The word often said to be the longest in Dutch – probably because of its funny meaning and alliteration – which has also appeared in print, is " ("construction ground for the Hottentot soldiers' tents exhibition"); counting 53 letters. The 45-letter word pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is the longest English word that appears in a major dictionary. Antidisestablishmentarianism, at 28 letters, is the longest non-coined, non-systematic English word in Oxford Dictionaries. It refers

title: Antidisestablishmentarianism (word)

text: Antidisestablishmentarianism (word) The English word antidisestablishmentarianism (, ) is notable for its unusual length of 28 letters and 12 syllables, and is one of the longest words in the English language. It has been cited as the longest word in the English language (excluding coined and technical terms), although some sources say that it is not used enough to carry that title. The longest word found in a major dictionary is "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis", but this is a technical term that was coined specifically to be the longest word. The word became known in the public realm in the United States via

title: Longest words

text: to a 19th-century political movement that opposed the disestablishment of the Church of England as the state church of England. Floccinaucinihilipilification, at 29 letters and meaning the act of estimating something as being worth so little as to be practically valueless, or the habit of doing so, is the longest non-technical, coined word in Oxford Dictionaries of the English language. The longest official Esperanto roots are 12 letters long, shown here with the added substantive "-o" ending: Since Esperanto allows word compounding, there are no limits on how long a word can theoretically become. A relatively short example is the

title: Longest word in English

text: Longest word in English The identity of the longest word in English depends upon the definition of what constitutes a word in the English language, as well as how length should be compared. In addition to words derived naturally from the language's roots (without any known intentional invention), English allows new words to be formed by coinage and construction; place names may be considered words; technical terms may be arbitrarily long. Length may be understood in terms of orthography and number of written letters, or (less commonly) phonology and the number of phonemes. The longest word in any of the

title: Longest word in English

text: is also known as Webster Lake. The longest hyphenated names in the U.S. are "Winchester-on-the-Severn", a town in Maryland, and "Washington-on-the-Brazos", a notable place in Texas history. The longest official geographical name in Australia is Mamungkukumpurangkuntjunya. It has 26 letters and is a Pitjantjatjara word meaning "where the Devil urinates". In Ireland, the longest English placename at 19 letters is Newtownmountkennedy in County Wicklow. "Guinness World Records" formerly contained a category for longest personal name used. Long birth names are often coined in protest of naming laws or for other personal reasons. Longest word in English The identity of the

title: Longest word in English

text: likely to be encountered in general text are "deinstitutionalization" and "counterrevolutionaries", with 22 letters each. A computer study of over a million samples of normal English prose found that the longest word one is likely to encounter on an everyday basis is "uncharacteristically", at 20 letters. The word "internationalization" is abbreviated "i18n", the embedded number representing the number of letters between the first and the last. In his play "Assemblywomen" ("Ecclesiazousae"), the ancient Greek comedic playwright Aristophanes created a word of 171 letters (183 in the transliteration below), which describes a dish by stringing together its ingredients: Henry Carey's farce

title: Longest word in English

text: the spa waters at Bath, England, is attributed to Dr. Edward Strother (1675–1737). The word is composed of the following elements: The longest officially recognized place name in an English-speaking country is "Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu" (57 letters), which is a hill in New Zealand. The name is in the Māori language. A longer and widely recognised version of the name is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu (85 letters), which appears on the signpost at the location (see the photo on this page). In Māori, the digraphs "ng" and "wh" are each treated as single letters. In Canada, the longest place name is "Dysart, Dudley, Harcourt, Guilford,

title: Longest word in English

text: Harburn, Bruton, Havelock, Eyre and Clyde", a township in Ontario, at 61 letters or 68 non-space characters. The longest non-contrived place name in the United Kingdom which is a single non-hyphenated word is Cottonshopeburnfoot (19 letters) and the longest which is hyphenated is Sutton-under-Whitestonecliffe (29 characters). The longest place name in the United States (45 letters) is "Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg", a lake in Webster, Massachusetts. It means "Fishing Place at the Boundaries – Neutral Meeting Grounds" and is sometimes facetiously translated as "you fish your side of the water, I fish my side of the water, nobody fishes the middle". The lake

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text: Sylvia Plath made mention of it in her semi-autobiographical novel "The Bell Jar", when the protagonist was reading "Finnegans Wake". "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious", the 34-letter title of a song from the movie "Mary Poppins", does appear in several dictionaries, but only as a proper noun defined in reference to the song title. The attributed meaning is "a word that you say when you don't know what to say." The idea and invention of the word is credited to songwriters Robert and Richard Sherman. The English language permits the legitimate extension of existing words to serve new purposes by the addition of prefixes

title: Longest word in English

text: In musical notation, a 8192nd note may be called a "semihemidemisemihemidemisemihemidemisemiquaver". "Antidisestablishmentarianism" is the longest common example of a word formed by agglutinative construction. A number of scientific naming schemes can be used to generate arbitrarily long words. The IUPAC nomenclature for organic chemical compounds is open-ended, giving rise to the 189,819-letter chemical name "Methionylthreonylthreonyl...isoleucine" for the protein also known as titin, which is involved in striated muscle formation. In nature, DNA molecules can be much bigger than protein molecules and therefore potentially be referred to with much longer chemical names. For example, the wheat chromosome 3B contains almost 1

title: Longest word in French

text: Longest word in French This article lists some of the longest words in the French language. The longest word listed below, "hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobie" (36 letters) is the fear (or phobia) of long words. The word is formed from the Latin word "sesquipedalia" (singular "sesquipedalis"), which the Ancient Roman poet Horace used in "Ars Poetica" to describe excessively long words; literally, it means "a foot-and-a-half long". The length of the word "hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobie" is embellished with the prefix "hippopotomonstro" ("monster hippopotamus"), which is a characterisation of the feared words. Like the other phobias in the list, "hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobie" can be pluralised by adding the

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text: letter "s" to the end. The adjective "interdépartemental" (18 letters), which also appears in the list, can be pluralised by appending the letters "es". Longest word in French This article lists some of the longest words in the French language. The longest word listed below, "hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobie" (36 letters) is the fear (or phobia) of long words. The word is formed from the Latin word "sesquipedalia" (singular "sesquipedalis"), which the Ancient Roman poet Horace used in "Ars Poetica" to describe excessively long words; literally, it means "a foot-and-a-half long". The length of the word "hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobie" is embellished with the prefix "hippopotomonstro"

title: Longest word in English

text: billion base pairs, so the sequence of one of its strands, if written out in full like "Adenilyladenilylguanilylcystidylthymidyl...", would be about 8 billion letters long. The longest published word, "Acetylseryltyrosylseryliso...serine", referring to the coat protein of a certain strain of tobacco mosaic virus, was 1,185 letters long, and appeared in the American Chemical Society's Chemical Abstracts Service in 1964 and 1966. In 1965, the Chemical Abstracts Service overhauled its naming system and started discouraging excessively long names. John Horton Conway and Landon Curt Noll developed an open-ended system for naming powers of 10, in which one ', coming from the

title: Longest word in Turkish

text: Longest word in Turkish As an agglutinative language, Turkish allows the construction of words by adding many suffixes to a word stem. The longest word in the Turkish language used in a text is ""muvaffakiyetsizleştiricileştiriveremeyebileceklerimizdenmişsinizcesine"" which has 70 letters. It is derived from the noun ""muvaffakiyet"" (success) and means "As though you are from those whom we may not be able to easily make into a maker of unsuccessful ones". It was used in a contrived story designed to use this word. Not considering suffixes, the longest Turkish dictionary words have 20 letters: These are "kuyruksallayangiller" (the biological genus Motacillidae),

title: Longest word in Spanish

text: Longest word in Spanish This article describes some of the longest words in the Spanish language. "Esternocleidooccipitomastoideos" (31-letters) is the plural of the noun "esternocleidooccipitomastoideo", which is the sternocleidomastoid, a muscle in the human neck. The word has a 22-letter synonym: "esternocleidomastoideo", which is shorter because it omits the Latin prefix "occipito-" (occipital). Both words are abbreviated as "ECOM". The 24-letter word "electroencefalografistas", plural of "electroencefalografista", means "electroencephalographists" or "electroencephalographers": specialists in the brain measurement technology of electroencephalography (EEG). The 23-letter adverb "anticonstitucionalmente" means "anticonstitutionally". "Anticonstitucionalmente" is also the Portuguese translation; the French translation, "anticonstitutionnellement", is an exceptionally long word

title: Longest word in Turkish

text: A slight modification ""Çekoslovakyalılaştıramadıklarımızdanmışsınız"" (43 letters) (you are reportedly one of those that we could not make Czechoslovakian) is however even longer and containing no question particle, is written contiguously. After the dissolution of Czechoslovakia, ""Afyonkarahisarlılaştırabildiklerimizdenmişsinizcesine"" (53 letters) was often said to be the longest word in Turkish. It means "As if you are one of the people that we made to be originating from Afyonkarahisar". After publication of longer words in popular media, it lost its popularity. The word ""Muvaffakiyetsizleştiricileştiriveremeyebileceklerimizdenmişsinizcesine"" (70 letters) was proposed by Koksal Karakus as the longest word in Turkish. Its use is illustrated by the

title: Longest word in English

text: Latin name for 6560, is the name for 10 = 10. Under the long number scale, it would be 10 = 10. Jonathan Bowers has developed a system for even larger numbers (' for formula_1). "Gammaracanthuskytodermogammarus loricatobaicalensis" is sometimes cited as the longest binomial name—it is a kind of amphipod. However, this name, proposed by B. Dybowski, was invalidated by the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature in 1929 after being petitioned by Mary J. Rathbun to take up the case. "Parastratiosphecomyia stratiosphecomyioides" is the longest accepted binomial name. It is a species of soldier fly. "Aequeosalinocalcalinoceraceoaluminosocupreovitriolic", at 52 letters, describing

title: Longest word in Spanish

text: as well (25 letters). In the table below, all of the Spanish nouns except for "arteriosclerosis" can be pluralised by adding an "s" to the end. The adjective "otorrinolaringológico" can also be pluralised with an "s"; the plurals of the other adjectives end in "es". The "RAE" column indicates whether the Real Academia Española lists and defines the word in the "Diccionario de la lengua española", its official dictionary. Longest word in Spanish This article describes some of the longest words in the Spanish language. "Esternocleidooccipitomastoideos" (31-letters) is the plural of the noun "esternocleidooccipitomastoideo", which is the sternocleidomastoid, a muscle

title: Longest English sentence

text: sentences without punctuation. Jonathan Coe's "The Rotters' Club" appears to hold the record at 13,955 words. It was inspired by Bohumil Hrabal's "Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age": a Czech language novel written in one long sentence. Longest English sentence There have been several claims for the longest sentence in the English language, usually with claims that revolve around the longest "printed" sentence, because there is no limit on the possible length of a written English sentence. At least one linguistics textbook concludes that, in theory, "there is no longest English sentence." A sentence can be made arbitrarily long

title: Longest English sentence

text: Longest English sentence There have been several claims for the longest sentence in the English language, usually with claims that revolve around the longest "printed" sentence, because there is no limit on the possible length of a written English sentence. At least one linguistics textbook concludes that, in theory, "there is no longest English sentence." A sentence can be made arbitrarily long by successive iterations, such as "Someone thinks that someone thinks that someone thinks that...," or by combining shorter clauses in various ways. For example, sentences can be extended by recursively embedding clauses one into another, such as The

title: Longest words

text: a single word due to the spaces. In proper nouns, many Korean monarchs have long posthumous names built from many different Sino-Korean nouns describing their positive characteristics, for example Sunjo of Joseon, whose full posthumous name is the 77-syllable-block (). The longest Lithuanian word is 40 letters long: The Māori-language 85-letter place name " is the longest place name in English-speaking countries and second longest in the world, according to "Wises New Zealand Guide" and "The New Zealand Herald". Mongolian is an agglutinative language. Words can get longer by adding suffixes. So, the longest suffixed word in Mongolian is ""

title: Antidisestablishmentarianism (word)

text: Scotland, which had and still has its own separate national church. The word construction is as follows (the numbers succeeding the word refer to the number of letters in the word): Antidisestablishmentarianism (word) The English word antidisestablishmentarianism (, ) is notable for its unusual length of 28 letters and 12 syllables, and is one of the longest words in the English language. It has been cited as the longest word in the English language (excluding coined and technical terms), although some sources say that it is not used enough to carry that title. The longest word found in a major

title: Longest word in English

text: "Chrononhotonthologos" (1743) holds the opening line: "Aldiborontiphoscophornio! Where left you Chrononhotonthologos?" Thomas Love Peacock put these creations into the mouth of the phrenologist Mr. Cranium in his 1816 romp "Headlong Hall": "osteosarchaematosplanchnochondroneuromuelous" (44 characters) and "osseocarnisanguineoviscericartilaginonervomedullary" (51 characters). James Joyce made up nine 100-letter words plus one 101-letter word in his novel "Finnegans Wake", the most famous of which is Bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk. Appearing on the first page, it allegedly represents the symbolic thunderclap associated with the fall of Adam and Eve. As it appears nowhere else except in reference to this passage, it is generally not accepted as a real word.

title: Longest words

text: (30 letters).. Other long words are: There is some disagreement about what is the longest word in the Korean language. The longest word appearing in the "Standard Korean Dictionary" published by the National Institute of the Korean Language is (); Revised Romanization: ", which is a kind of ceramic bowl from the Goryeo dynasty; that word is 17 syllable blocks long, and contains a total of 46 hangul letters. The term (), a phonetic transcription of "nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide", has a larger number of syllable blocks (19) but a smaller number of letters (41), and also might not qualify as

title: Longest words

text: of thousands of characters in length. The rules of creation of such names are commonly defined by international bodies, therefore they formally belong to many languages. The longest recognized systematic name is for the protein titin, at 189,819 letters. While lexicographers regard generic names of chemical compounds as "verbal formulae" rather than words, for its sheer length the systematic name for titin is often included in longest-word lists. Longest word candidates may be judged by their acceptance in major dictionaries such as the "Oxford English Dictionary" or in record-keeping publications like "Guinness World Records", and by the frequency of their

title: Longest word in English

text: and suffixes. This is sometimes referred to as agglutinative construction. This process can create arbitrarily long words: for example, the prefixes "pseudo" (false, spurious) and "anti" (against, opposed to) can be added as many times as desired. A word like "anti-aircraft" (pertaining to the defense against aircraft) is easily extended to "anti-anti-aircraft" (pertaining to counteracting the defense against aircraft, a legitimate concept) and can from there be prefixed with an endless stream of "anti-"s, each time creating a new level of counteraction. More familiarly, the addition of numerous "great"s to a relative, e.g. great-great-great-grandfather, can produce words of arbitrary length.

title: Longest word in Turkish

text: root. Otherwise it alternates between -DIr (D=d or t, I=ı,i,u or ü) and -t depending on the preceding letter. Multiple usage of this suffix is rare, but there is no theoretical reason to put a limit to its use. The tongue twister ""Çekoslovakyalılaştıramadıklarımızdan mısınız"" is often said to be the longest word in Turkish, despite in written form appearing to be two separate words. This is because the question particle "mi" is by convention separated from the verb, despite being considered part of it. It means ""Are you one of those people whom we could not make to be Czechoslovakian?""

title: The Word Is Live

text: cover of a song by The Young Rascals, and "Go Through This" and "We Can Fly From Here" from the tour to support "Drama", but which were not released on that album. The latter would eventually be reworked and released thirty-one years later in the album "Fly from Here". The title is a pun on the lyric, "(and) the word is love", from their song "Time and a Word". "The Word Is Live" (Rhino R2 78234) failed to chart in the UK or US. The Word Is Live The Word is Live is a box set by the English progressive

title: Longest word in Turkish

text: one of those teachers refuses to be maker of unsuccessful ones, in other words, to be made a maker of unsuccessful ones; he talks about and criticizes the school's stand on the issue. The headmaster who thinks every teacher can be made easily/quickly into a maker of unsuccessful ones gets angry. He invites the teacher to his room and says "You are talking as if you were one of those we can not easily/quickly turn into a maker of unsuccessful ones, right?" Longest word in Turkish As an agglutinative language, Turkish allows the construction of words by adding many suffixes

title: Longest words

text: use in ordinary language. Afrikaans, as it is a daughter language of the Dutch language, is capable of forming compounds of potentially limitless length in the same way as in the Dutch language. According to the Total Book of South African Records, the longest word in the language is The longest Basque toponym is "" (39). The Bulgarian online etymological dictionary claims that longest word in Bulgarian to be the 39-letter-long ("), introduced in the Constitution of Bulgaria of 1947 (Dimitrov Constitution). The word means "do not perform actions against the constitution" (addressed to more than one person). The longest

title: Longest words

text: words are possible. The word was the name of a prewar Viennese club for subordinate officials of the headquarters of the electrical division of the company named the , which operated steam boats on the Danube river. The longest word that is not created artificially as a longest-word record seems to be at 63 letters. The word means "law delegating beef label monitoring" but as of 2013, it was removed from the books because European Union regulations have changed and that particular law became obsolete, leading to news reports that Germany "had lost its longest word". In December 2016 the

title: The Word Is Live

text: The Word Is Live The Word is Live is a box set by the English progressive rock band Yes, released in August 2005 by Rhino Records. A triple album, the set is compiled of live recordings from radio broadcasts and concert tours between 1970 and 1988, mostly from guitarist Steve Howe's tape collection. Many of the tracks were originally broadcast on radio shows and have been bootlegged extensively. In these, it is often the case that the radio show's final mix was the only mix available so few improvements in quality could be done for the release. While a few

title: Longest words

text: in language: The longest word in Spanish is "" (inflammation of the sternocleidomastoid muscle, 30 letters). Runners-up are "" ([proceeding in a manner that is] contrary to the constitution) and "" (specialists that do electrical scans on brains (electroencephalographists)), both 23 letters. The word "" is usually considered the longest word "in general use". This word can be made even longer by the addition of the absolute superlative suffix, rendering "anticonstitucionalísimamente" (i.e.: "very strongly against the constitution"). Some dictionaries (but not the RAE dictionary) removed its root word ("anticonstitucional") in 2005, causing comments about it not "being a valid word

title: Longest words

text: Tirumalāmbā, composed of 195 Sanskrit letters (428 letters in the roman transliteration, dashes excluded), thus making it the longest word ever to appear in worldwide literature. Each hyphen separates every individual word this word is composed of. The approximate meaning of this word is: Traditionally, the word " (31 letters) is considered as the longest Slovak word, but there are some longer artificial words. Most of them are compound adjectives in dative, instrumental or other grammatical case and derived from the iterative or frequentative verbal form or the ability adjective form (like -able). Artificial words, lexically valid but never used

title: Longest words

text: other meat. The word is cited as the longest ancient Greek word ever written. A modern Greek word of 22 letters is () (gen. (), 25 letters) meaning "electroencephalogram". ', with 44 letters is one example of a long word in the Hungarian language and means something like "for your [plural] continued behaviour as if you could not be desecrated". It is already morphed, since Hungarian is an agglutinative language. The language does not have a "longest word" due to its agglutinating nature. It is always possible to construct a longer one with enough creativity. For example, ' (119 letters),

title: Longest words

text: which means: "About your investigations of the upgradeability of the manifestation of the syndrome of the neurosis about the need to decide which is the world record of the most complex longest word." The longest dictionary form word is the word in use (although it is constructed from the word: "szent" meaning: "saint"), "", with 25 characters, and means "something that cannot be desecrated". Icelandic has the ability to form compounds of arbitrary length by stringing together genitives (), so no single words of maximal length exist in the language. However, and are sometimes cited as particularly long words; the

title: Longest words

text: goaty-legged-above-and-under-general-war-commanding-sergeant") as a parody on the long Danish military titles. This word is 54 letters long. Dutch, like many Germanic languages, is capable of forming compounds of potentially limitless length. The 53-letter word "Kindercarnavalsoptochtvoorbereidingswerkzaamhedenplan", meaning "preparation activities plan for a children's carnival procession", was cited by the 1996 Guinness Book of World Records as the longest Dutch word. The longest word in the authoritative Van Dale Dutch dictionary (2009 edition) "in plural form" is "; 38 letters long, meaning "multiple personality disorders". The entry in the dictionary however is in the singular, counting 35 letters. The free OpenTaal dictionary, which

title: Longest words

text: latter has 64 letters and means "a keychain ring for the outdoor key of road workers shed in a moor called Vaðlaheiði". Analysis of a corpus of contemporary Icelandic texts by Uwe Quasthoff, Sabine Fiedler and Erla Hallsteinsdóttir identified ("of the International Transport Workers' Federation"; 37 letters) and ("of the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries' Organization"; 45 letters) as the longest unhyphenated and hyphenated words. The longest word occurring at least twice in the University of Leipzig "isl-is_web_2015" corpus is (110 letters). The longest word in Italian is traditionally ", which is a 26-letter-long adverb. It is formed by subsequent addition of

title: Longest words

text: anymore" and suggesting the use of "inconstitucional" as a replacement. ' (28 letters) is the longest word in Svenska Akademiens Ordlista. It means "capital gains taxation", and is usually shortened to ' (same meaning). However, Swedish grammar makes it possible to create arbitrarily long words. One such word is " (94 letters) which means: "[belonging to] The manager of the depot for the supply of uniforms to the personnel of the track cleaners' union of the tramway company". Tagalog—an agglutinative language—can make long words by adding on affixes, suffixes, and other root words with a connector. The longest published word

title: The Word (song)

text: middle eight by himself. Samples from this song are also included on "Love" released in November 2006, in the track "Drive My Car/The Word/What You're Doing". John Lennon gave Yoko Ono the original sheets to the song just before their relationship began. Paul McCartney has played a medley version of "The Word"/"All You Need Is Love" on his On the Run Tour. The Word (song) "The Word" is a song by English rock group the Beatles, written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney and recorded with Lennon on lead vocals. It was first released on their 1965 album "Rubber Soul".

title: The Longest Voyage

text: it is "nearly unmatched" in science fiction for its "lyricism, compassion, subtlety, thoughtfulness, and above all the relish it takes in the bristling strangeness and wonder of the world". Steven H. Silver commented that what distinguishes "The Longest Voyage" from similar stories is that "Anderson provides strong motivation for both the explorers and the natives". The Longest Voyage "The Longest Voyage" is a science fiction short story by American writer Poul Anderson. It won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1961. On a distant world the age of exploration is beginning. A party of daring explorers attempts to

title: Longest word in Turkish

text: "ademimerkeziyetçilik" (decentralization) and "elektroensefalografi" (electroencephalography). In comparison, the word "muvaffakiyet" has 12 letters, so it should be possible to use various other suffixes to make an even longer word from these ones. There is no principled grammatical reason for not being able to make a Turkish word indefinitely long, as there are suffixes that can act recursively on a word stem. In practice, however, such words would become unintelligible after a few cycles of recursion. Turkish grammar is highly agglutinative, enabling the construction of words by stringing various morphemes. It is theoretically possible for some words to be inflected an

title: Longest words

text: instances including in the last word below): Longest words The longest word in any given language depends on the word formation rules of each specific language, and on the types of words allowed for consideration. Agglutinative languages allow for the creation of long words via compounding. Words consisting of hundreds, or even thousands of characters have been coined. Even non-agglutinative languages may allow word formation of theoretically limitless length in certain contexts. An example common to many languages in the term for a very remote ancestor, "great-great-...-grandfather", where the prefix "great-" may be repeated any number of times. Systematic names

title: Longest words

text: to his room and says "You are talking as if you were one of those we can not easily/quickly turn into a maker of unsuccessful ones, right?" Other well-known very long Turkish words are: Vietnamese is an isolating language, which naturally limits the length of a morpheme. The longest, at seven letters, is , which means "inclined" or "to lean". This is the longest word that can be written without a space. However, not all words in Vietnamese are single morphemes. Indeed, can be reduplicated as . The written language abounds with compound words in which each constituent word is

title: What Is History?

text: and were instead products of their own places and times, which in turn decided what "facts of the past" they determined into "facts of history". British historian Richard J. Evans said "What Is History?" caused a revolution in British historiography in the 1960s. Australian historian Keith Windschuttle, a critic of Carr, said "What Is History?" is one of the most influential books written about historiography, and that very few historians working in the English language since the 1960s had not read it. What Is History? What Is History? is a study that was written by the English historian E. H.

title: Word Is Out (song)

text: Word Is Out (song) "Word Is Out" is a song written by English duo Stock and Waterman for Kylie Minogue's fourth album "Let's Get to It" (1991). Produced by Mike Stock and Pete Waterman, it was released as the first single from Minogue's album "Let's Get to It". The artwork for the cover was photographed by Ellen Von Unwerth in 1991 for the British edition of "Esquire". On Michael Wilton's review of the second night of her Anti Tour in Sydney, Australia—where she performed an a cappella rendition of the song—for musicOMH, he stated "Word is Out" is "wildly underrated."

title: Word Is Out (song)

text: Australian 12" vinyl single Word Is Out (song) "Word Is Out" is a song written by English duo Stock and Waterman for Kylie Minogue's fourth album "Let's Get to It" (1991). Produced by Mike Stock and Pete Waterman, it was released as the first single from Minogue's album "Let's Get to It". The artwork for the cover was photographed by Ellen Von Unwerth in 1991 for the British edition of "Esquire". On Michael Wilton's review of the second night of her Anti Tour in Sydney, Australia—where she performed an a cappella rendition of the song—for musicOMH, he stated "Word is

title: Longest English sentence

text: ability to embed structures within larger ones is called recursion. This also highlights the difference between linguistic performance and linguistic competence, because the language can support more variation than can reasonably be created or recorded. One of the longest sentences in literature is contained in William Faulkner's "Absalom, Absalom!" (1936). The sentence is composed of 1,288 words (In the 1951 Random House version). Another sentence that is often claimed to be the longest sentence ever written is Molly Bloom's soliloquy in the James Joyce novel "Ulysses" (1922), which contains a sentence of 3,687 words. However, this sentence is simply many

title: Mum's the word

text: Mum's the word Mum's the word is a popular English idiom. It is related to an expression used by William Shakespeare, in "Henry VI, Part 2". The word “mum” is a slanged version of momme, which was used between 1350-1400 in Middle English with very close to the same meaning: Be silent; Do not reveal "Mum's the word" means to keep silent or quiet. "Mum" is a Middle English word meaning 'silent', and may be derived from the "mummer" who acts without speaking. Note the similar English word "mime" (Old English "mīma", Latin "mimus") meaning silent actor or imitator. The

title: Longest words

text: Longest words The longest word in any given language depends on the word formation rules of each specific language, and on the types of words allowed for consideration. Agglutinative languages allow for the creation of long words via compounding. Words consisting of hundreds, or even thousands of characters have been coined. Even non-agglutinative languages may allow word formation of theoretically limitless length in certain contexts. An example common to many languages in the term for a very remote ancestor, "great-great-...-grandfather", where the prefix "great-" may be repeated any number of times. Systematic names of chemical compounds can run to hundreds

title: The D-Word

text: Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) or Silverdocs, close to Washington DC. The D-Word The D-Word is a worldwide online community for professionals in the documentary film industry. Discussions include creative, business, technical, and social topics related to documentary filmmaking. The name "D-Word" is defined as "industry euphemism for documentary", as in: "We love your film but we don't know how to sell it. It's a d-word." The D-Word is the longest-running online platform in the documentary industry. It was established in 1999 in New York City by filmmaker Doug Block and writer and online community builder Dan Richards as a result of

title: The D-Word

text: The D-Word The D-Word is a worldwide online community for professionals in the documentary film industry. Discussions include creative, business, technical, and social topics related to documentary filmmaking. The name "D-Word" is defined as "industry euphemism for documentary", as in: "We love your film but we don't know how to sell it. It's a d-word." The D-Word is the longest-running online platform in the documentary industry. It was established in 1999 in New York City by filmmaker Doug Block and writer and online community builder Dan Richards as a result of Block's feature documentary, "Home Page", and encouraged by protagonists

title: The Longest Journey

text: July 2002, global sales of the game had reached 450,000 copies, according to Funcom. A new shipment was released in North America that month, as its earlier printing had sold out. Ragnar Tørnquist noted in 2003 that he was "very satisfied" with "The Longest Journey"s sales in North America, and explained, "There was such strong word of mouth, and so many great reviews, that we managed to get "TLJ" into most big stores and out to the players regardless of marketing." In May 2003, Marek Bronstring of Adventure Gamers wrote that "The Longest Journey" "sold half a million copies worldwide

title: Interrogative word

text: Interrogative word An interrogative word or question word is a function word used to ask a question, such as "what", "when", "where", "who", "whom", "why", and "how". They are sometimes called wh-words, because in English most of them start with "wh-" (compare Five Ws). They may be used in both direct questions ("Where is he going?") and in indirect questions ("I wonder where he is going"). In English and various other languages the same forms are also used as relative pronouns in certain relative clauses ("The country where he was born") and certain adverb clauses ("I go where he goes").

title: What Is the What

text: What Is the What What Is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng is a 2006 novel written by Dave Eggers. It is based on the life of Valentino Achak Deng, a Sudanese child refugee who immigrated to the United States under the Lost Boys of Sudan program. It was a finalist for the National Book Award. As a boy, Achak is separated from his family during the Second Sudanese Civil War when the Arab militia, referred to as "murahaleen" (which is Arabic for the deported), wipes out his Dinka village, Marial Bai. During the assault, he loses sight

title: What Is the What

text: That Happens Will Happen Today". Tom Tykwer plans to adapt the novel into a film. In 2009, the novel received the Prix Médicis étranger in France. What Is the What What Is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng is a 2006 novel written by Dave Eggers. It is based on the life of Valentino Achak Deng, a Sudanese child refugee who immigrated to the United States under the Lost Boys of Sudan program. It was a finalist for the National Book Award. As a boy, Achak is separated from his family during the Second Sudanese Civil War when

title: The Longest Journey

text: team had to work overtime and during weekends to ultimately meet the deadline. First published by IQ Media Nordic in Norway in 1999, it was later localized for and released in France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, Canada, Spain, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Poland, Czech Republic, Russia, and the United States. The game was originally written and recorded in English, though most of the localizations were released before the English version. In October 2011, it was announced that "The Longest Journey" was being ported to iOS, with the article mainly focusing on the iPhone. Before "The Longest Journey"s

title: What Is Literature?

text: What Is Literature? What Is Literature? (), also published as "Literature and Existentialism",) is an essay by French philosopher and novelist Jean-Paul Sartre, published by Gallimard in 1948. Initially published in freestanding essays across French literary journals "Les Temps modernes", "Situations I" and "Situations II", essays "What is Writing?" and "Why Write?" were translated into English and published by the Paris-based literary journal Transition 1948. The English translation by Bernard Frechtman was published in 1950. Sartre attempts to devise an understanding of the effect literature has on those who are subjected to it. In the foreword Sartre addresses his critics

title: Longest words

text: postfixes to the original root: The word is never used in every-day language, but in jokes. Nevertheless, it is an official part of Italian language; it was coined in 1677 by poet Francesco Moneti: The word technically violates Italian grammar rules, the correct form being "precipitevolissimamente", which is three letters and one syllable shorter. The poet coined the new word to have 11 syllables in the second verse. Other words can be created with a similar (and grammatically correct) mechanism starting from a longer root, winding up with a longer word. Some examples are: The longest accepted neologism is "

title: Longest words

text: suffixes) Finnish word recognised by the Guinness Book of Records is (see also Agglutination#Extremes), based on the stem (reason, sanity), and it means: I wonder if – even with his/her quality of not having been made unsystematized In German, whole numbers (smaller than 1 million) can be expressed as single words, which makes (777,777) a 65 letter word. In combination with or, as an inflected noun, , all numbers can be written as one word. A 79 letter word, , was named the longest published word in the German language by the 1972 Guinness Book of World Records, but longer

title: Longest words

text: in the language is “pinakanakakapagngitngitngitngitang-pagsisinungasinungalingan,” with 59 letters. This compound word means “to keep making up a lie that causes the most extreme anger while pretending you are not.” Turkish, as an agglutinative language, carries the potential for words of arbitrary length. ", at 70 letters, has been cited as the longest Turkish word. It was used in a contrived story designed to use this word. The word means "As if you would be from those we can not easily/quickly make a maker of unsuccessful ones" and its usage was illustrated as follows: " ' ' ' ' ' "'

title: Sexy (Is the Word)

text: Sexy (Is the Word) "Sexy (Is the Word)" is a pop song recorded by Australian Artist, Melissa (Tkautz). This was the performer's second single, following "Read My Lips". Like "Read My Lips", "Sexy (Is the Word)" was launched via the television series that Tkautz was starring in at the time, "E Street". The song appears on her debut album "Fresh". The track was written by "Roy Nicolson" , Leon Berger and Tony King. CD and Cassette Single 12" inch vinyl Side A Side B The Film clip for his single featured Melissa in a number of guises. She is seen

title: Longest words

text: word in Catalan is considered to be ', an adverb meaning "[done in a way that is] against the constitution", however, the scientific word ', related to endocrinology has been proposed by the University of Barcelona to be the true longest word. Longer words can be created as Danish grammar allows its user to put nouns together, forming brand new words, making it possible for a word to be arbitrarily long. For instance, in the fairy tale The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep, the author Hans Christian Andersen named one of the characters " ("General-clothes-press-inspector-head-superintendent-Goat-legs" or in literal translation "the

title: Sexy (Is the Word)

text: in hot pink lingerie, and also in a leather Jacket, cavorting with a large block of ice. In 2005, Tkautz, relaunched her music career with the album "Lost And Found" and included two new versions of "Sexy (Is The Word)". These were contemporary remixes where new vocals were recorded, and whilst not released as a single, the song received much attention in nightclubs around Australia. There was a film clip released with this track to clubs which was a re-edited version of the original music video. Sexy (Is the Word) "Sexy (Is the Word)" is a pop song recorded by

title: Word count

text: word is generally used for English. Variations in the operational definitions of how to count the words can occur (namely, what "counts as" a word, and which words "don't count" toward the total). However, especially since the advent of widespread word processing, there is a broad consensus on these operational definitions (and hence the bottom-line integer result). The consensus is to accept the text segmentation rules generally found in most word processing software (including how word boundaries are determined, which depends on how word dividers are defined). The first trait of that definition is that a space (any of various

title: What Is Life

text: of "What Is Life" on his 2005 tribute CD "Something for George". "What Is Life" was performed live at George Fest 2014 by "Weird Al" Yankovic. The recording is available on YouTube. The following musicians are believed to have played on "What Is Life": What Is Life "What Is Life" is a song by the English musician George Harrison, released on his 1970 triple album "All Things Must Pass". In many countries, it was issued as the second single from the album, in February 1971, becoming a top-ten hit in the United States, Canada and elsewhere, and topping singles charts

title: Longest word in Turkish

text: infinite number of times, because certain suffixes generate words of the same type as the stem word, such that the new word can be modified again with the same suffix(es). An example for such a recursive pattern is Thus, case and possessive suffixes interspersed with the -ki- suffix can be added indefinitely to a noun, although in practice this would not be observed more than a few times. The causative morpheme can also be used recursively to generate indefinitely long words that are grammatically valid. This morpheme shows quite some irregularity, taking one of six forms depending on the verb

title: Word

text: the English alphabet. The difficulty of deciphering a word depends on the language. Dictionaries categorize a language's lexicon (i.e., its vocabulary) into lemmas. These can be taken as an indication of what constitutes a "word" in the opinion of the writers of that language. The most appropriate means of measuring the length of a word is by counting its syllables or morphemes. When a word has multiple definitions or multiple senses, it may result in confusion in a debate or discussion. Leonard Bloomfield introduced the concept of "Minimal Free Forms" in 1926. Words are thought of as the smallest meaningful

title: What Is Art?

text: What Is Art? What is Art? ( "Chto takoye iskusstvo?") is a book by Leo Tolstoy. It was completed in Russian in 1897 but first published in English due to difficulties with the Russian censors. Tolstoy cites the time, effort, public funds, and public respect spent on art and artists as well as the imprecision of general opinions on art as reason for writing the book. In his words, "it is difficult to say what is meant by art, and especially what is good, useful art, art for the sake of which we might condone such sacrifices as are being

title: Longest words

text: spoken language, although they are not nonsense words. It is possible to make even longer words in this way, for example: " (176 letters, meaning "of 999,999,999,999 years old"). One of the longest common words is 31-letter ' – the dative singular form of "ninety-and-some years old one". Another common long word is ' (23 letters), "a 50 groszy coin". Theoretically, it is possible to create Russian words of unlimited length, for example: (", great great great...grandfather). Most likely one of the longest, originally Russian words is ('), which contains 35 letters. "[It] is an adjective in the bureaucratic language

title: Word

text: be placed: In languages with a literary tradition, there is interrelation between orthography and the question of what is considered a single word. Word separators (typically spaces) are common in modern orthography of languages using alphabetic scripts, but these are (excepting isolated precedents) a relatively modern development (see also history of writing). In English orthography, compound expressions may contain spaces. For example, "ice cream", "air raid shelter" and "get up" each are generally considered to consist of more than one word (as each of the components are free forms, with the possible exception of "get"). Not all languages delimit words

title: What Is and What Should Never Be

text: What Is and What Should Never Be "What Is and What Should Never Be" is a song by English rock band Led Zeppelin. It was written by Jimmy Page and Robert Plant and was included as the second track on "Led Zeppelin II" (1969). "What is and What Should Never Be" was one of the first songs on which Page used his soon-to-become trademark Gibson Les Paul for recording. The production makes liberal use of stereo as the guitars pan back and forth between channels. Robert Plant's vocals were phased during the verses. Record producer Rick Rubin has remarked, "The

title: Music & the Spoken Word

text: Music & the Spoken Word Music & the Spoken Word is a religious radio and television series. Broadcast weekly from the Salt Lake Tabernacle in Salt Lake City, Utah, the program primarily features performances of music by The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square—often accompanied by the Salt Lake Tabernacle organ and the Orchestra at Temple Square, accompanied by spiritual messages and passages related to a specific episode's theme (the "spoken word"). "Music & the Spoken Word" has been broadcast continually on KSL radio since 1929, making it the United States' longest-running national radio program carried continuously on a network. The

title: One Word is Too Often Profaned

text: One Word is Too Often Profaned <poem>ONE word is too often profaned One feeling too falsely disdain'd One hope is too like despair And pity from thee more dear I can give not what men call love; The worship the heart lifts above The desire of the moth for the star, The devotion to something afar </poem> "One Word Is Too Often Profaned" is a poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley, written in 1822 and published in 1824 (see 1822 in poetry). The poem was intended for Jane Williams. It expresses Shelley's deep and genuine devotion for her. Shelley met Jane

title: What Is Literature?

text: The art of writing is deeply linked to freedom and thus ventures into the fields of politics and democracy. The poet frees himself by disassociation, and the prose writer fulfills a duty to utilize language for the end of a conceived free society. What Is Literature? What Is Literature? (), also published as "Literature and Existentialism",) is an essay by French philosopher and novelist Jean-Paul Sartre, published by Gallimard in 1948. Initially published in freestanding essays across French literary journals "Les Temps modernes", "Situations I" and "Situations II", essays "What is Writing?" and "Why Write?" were translated into English and

title: What Is and What Should Never Be

text: and What Should Never Be" was performed live at Led Zeppelin concerts between 1969 and 1973. A live version taken from a performance at the Royal Albert Hall in 1970 can be seen on the "Led Zeppelin DVD". Another was included on disc two of the live triple album "How The West Was Won". Two more versions were included in BBC Sessions. What Is and What Should Never Be "What Is and What Should Never Be" is a song by English rock band Led Zeppelin. It was written by Jimmy Page and Robert Plant and was included as the second

title: God's Word Is Our Great Heritage

text: God's Word Is Our Great Heritage God's Word Is Our Great Heritage, is the title of a popular hymn sung in many churches, especially the Lutheran Church. This hymn was inspired by Psalm 16:6: ""...yea, I have a goodly heritage."" KJV God's Word Is Our Great Heritage was written in 1817 by N. F. S. Grundtvig, a Danish Lutheran Pastor. Gruntvig wrote the hymn as the 5th verse to Martin Luther's Ein feste Burg . The hymn was translated into English by Ole Gulbrand Belsheim in 1909. In 1916, Friedrich Otto Reuter, then a professor at Dr. Martin Luther College,

title: What Is Life

text: What Is Life "What Is Life" is a song by the English musician George Harrison, released on his 1970 triple album "All Things Must Pass". In many countries, it was issued as the second single from the album, in February 1971, becoming a top-ten hit in the United States, Canada and elsewhere, and topping singles charts in Australia and Switzerland. In the United Kingdom, "What Is Life" appeared as the B-side to "My Sweet Lord", which was the best-selling single there of 1971. Harrison's backing musicians on the song include Eric Clapton and the entire Delaney & Bonnie Friends band,

title: The Word for World Is Forest

text: Athsheans: one of the elders of the Athsheans says to Selver "You've done what you had to do, and it was not right." "The Word for World is Forest" also challenges the idea of colonialism; the Terran colonists are depicted as being blind to the culture of the Athsheans, and convinced that they represent a higher form of civilization. Le Guin also challenges the metaphorical preference in Western cultures for pure light, in contrast to deeper and more complex shadows. Throughout the novel Le Guin draws a contrast between the Athshean way of integrating with the ecology of the planet,

title: Valiant Is the Word for Carrie

text: severely beaten by his father, and witnessing him being chased and cruelly teased and hazed by a gang of other boys, Carrie realises that for Paul's sake she must leave the town, let her beloved garden deteriorate, and never come back. The original story ends poignantly with Carrie going into a self-imposed exile, with the clear implication that she would never see Paul again. Barry Benefield later took up the story and made a revised version of it the first chapter of what became the 1936 novel "Valiant Is the Word for Carrie". Bar minor differences, the film's plot, as

title: The Word for World Is Forest

text: by the Vietnam War, but was living in London when she wrote the novel, cut off from the anti-war movement she had been a part of in Oregon. Written in these circumstances, "The Word for World is Forest" became what Le Guin called a "preachment". She stated that writing the book was like "taking dictation from a boss with ulcers". She said that she had wanted to write about forests and dreaming, but that the "boss" had made her write instead about ecological destruction. Charlotte Spivack stated that the book was an "angry work", that ended on a note of

title: Grease Is the Word

text: West End to tell them that the judges "hadn't got it right with the pairs." On the fourth live show, David Ian announced live on the programme that from week five, the finalists would no longer be partnered up. The Danny hopefuls would compete against each other, live on week five's show, and the Sandy's on week six of the show. Each of the Danny and Sandy specials eliminated 2 of the 4 hopefuls thus leaving only 4 finalists for the final vote on 9 June. Grease Is the Word Grease Is the Word was the United Kingdom version of

title: Grease Is the Word

text: Grease Is the Word Grease Is the Word was the United Kingdom version of NBC's "". It aired during 2007, and was produced by Syco TV (the production company of Simon Cowell). The winning couple, Susan McFadden & Danny Bayne, went on to star in a new West End production of "Grease" at the Piccadilly Theatre. The judges were actor and theatre producer David Ian, concert promoter and media personality David Gest, former popstar and television personality Sinitta, and choreographer and former "The X Factor" judge Brian Friedman. The main ITV show was presented by Zoë Ball, and Holly Willoughby

title: The First Word Is the Hardest

text: "Leave the Light On" and "Day By Day" are available through iTunes. The CD also contains the video for "The First Word Is the Hardest". The First Word Is the Hardest "The First Word Is the Hardest" is a single by Four Day Hombre. It was originally released through Crystal Songs in 2003; the tracks in this version were recorded by the band at their own studio. It is available on CD only (catalogue number hall008cd). It was rereleased with a different track listing through Alamo Music in 2006; the tracks in this version were recorded during the sessions for

title: What Is the What

text: writes: "Over the course of many years, Dave and I have collaborated to tell my story... I told [him] what I knew and what I could remember, and from that material he created this work of art." The book is typical of Eggers' style: blending non-fictional and fictional elements into a non-fiction novel or memoir. By classifying the book a novel, Eggers says, he freed himself to re-create conversations, streamline complex relationships, add relevant detail and manipulate time and space in helpful ways—all while maintaining the essential truthfulness of the storytelling. However, not all critics were impressed. Lee Siegel sees

title: The Memorandum

text: into smaller clusters of letters called "subwords", which nonetheless have no meaning outside of the word they belong to and are not interchangeable. Length of words, like everything else in Ptydepe, is determined scientifically. The vocabulary of Ptydepe uses entropy encoding: shorter words have more common meanings. Therefore, the shortest word in Ptydepe, "gh", corresponds to what is so far known to be the most general term in natural language, "whatever". (The longest word in Ptydepe, which contains 319 letters, is the word for "wombat" in an English translation. However in the Czech original it is a name for a

title: Interrogative word

text: A particular type of interrogative word is the interrogative particle, which serves to convert a statement into a yes–no question, without having any other meaning. Examples include "est-ce que" in French, ли "li" in Russian, "czy" in Polish, "ĉu" in Esperanto, কি "ki" in Bengali, "ma" in Chinese, '/' in Turkish, "pa" in Ladin, "ka" in Japanese and "ko/kö" in Finnish. (The English word "whether" has a similar function but only in indirect questions; and Multicultural London English may use "innit", even in the absence of the pronoun "it".) Such particles contrast with other interrogative words, which form what are

title: The Word for World Is Forest

text: dependence on their ecosystem through the use of forest related metaphors. Similarly, the Athshean word for "dream" is the same as the word for "root". Athsheans have learned to exert some conscious control over their dreams, and their actions are dictated by both their dream experiences and their conscious non-dreaming thoughts. Thus their dreaming makes them rooted, something which is demonstrated through their use of language. The Athshean word for "god" is the same as the word for "translator", representing this role that "gods have" in their society, which is to interpret and translate their dreams into actions. "The Word

title: What Work Is

text: in Detroit. The cadence of many of the poems in the collection are simple free verse. The rhythm and dictation of much of the collection is normal and easily accessible. Though "What Work Is" takes on many sophisticated subjects such as death, love, loss, and struggle, the collection maintains an easy-to-access feeling. Levine's work in this collection is not to obscure or make grandiose, but instead to reveal and show plainly matters that are important. Levine's structures and word choices reflect this mood of his poetry as he rarely uses complicated punctuation or rhythms. Instead of using highly symbolic words

title: What Is to Be Done?

text: what Lenin’s real views were". Therefore, Lih argues, the word спонтанность, when translated as "spontaneity", distorts his views and has different contextual connotations; how конспирация does not mean "conspiracy", but "the rules and procedures needed for an underground organisation to survive"; тред-юнионизм does not mean "trade unionism", but non-revolutionary "only trade unionism"; and революционер по профессии should not be translated as "professional revolutionary". What Is to Be Done? What Is To Be Done? Burning Questions of Our Movement () is a political pamphlet written by the Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin (credited as N. Lenin) in 1901 and published in 1902.

title: Mum's the word

text: origins of the phrase can be traced back to the fourteenth century and William Langland's narrative poem, "Piers Plowman": It can also be seen in popular fifteenth-century Towneley Plays: The phrase notably appears in Shakespeare's "Henry VI, Part 2", Act 1, Scene 2: Mum's the word Mum's the word is a popular English idiom. It is related to an expression used by William Shakespeare, in "Henry VI, Part 2". The word “mum” is a slanged version of momme, which was used between 1350-1400 in Middle English with very close to the same meaning: Be silent; Do not reveal "Mum's the

title: 4 Pics 1 Word

text: 4 Pics 1 Word 4 Pics 1 Word is a word puzzle game created by LOTUM GmbH, available for free on Android and iOS. 4 Pics 1 Word's gameplay is very simple: each level displays four pictures linked by one word - the player's aim is to work out what the word is, from a set of letters given below the pictures. The game is said to follow the "freemium" model: although the game is free, microtransactions are available to help the user progress through the game more quickly. The game is written from an English dialect perspective, as well

title: What Is History?

text: What Is History? What Is History? is a study that was written by the English historian E. H. Carr. It was first published by Cambridge University Press in 1961. It discusses history, facts, the bias of historians, science, morality, individuals and society, and moral judgements in history. The book was originally part of a series of G. M. Trevelyan lectures given by Carr in 1961 at the University of Cambridge. The lectures were intended as a broad introduction into the subject of the theory of history. Some of Carr's ideas are contentious, particularly his alleged relativism and his rejection of

title: What Is Life

text: performance of "What Is Life" that was "greeted with a reception that matched anything the New York audience at the Bangla Desh concerts expressed". English born Australian pop singer Olivia Newton-John recorded "What Is Life", along with a version of Harrison's "All Things Must Pass" track "Behind That Locked Door", for her 1972 album "Olivia". The song was arranged and produced by Bruce Welch of the Shadows and John Farrar, who was Newton-John's regular producer and collaborator during the 1970s. Released as a single in some countries, this version reached the UK top 20 in March 1972, peaking at number

title: The First Word Is the Hardest

text: The First Word Is the Hardest "The First Word Is the Hardest" is a single by Four Day Hombre. It was originally released through Crystal Songs in 2003; the tracks in this version were recorded by the band at their own studio. It is available on CD only (catalogue number hall008cd). It was rereleased with a different track listing through Alamo Music in 2006; the tracks in this version were recorded during the sessions for the album Experiments in Living. This release is available on CD (catalogue number ALM CDS002), 7" vinyl (catalogue number ALM V002), and through iTunes. Both

title: English orthography

text: as a misguided attempt to make them conform to what were perceived to be the etymological origins of the words. For example, the letter "b" was added to "debt" (originally "dette") in an attempt to link it to the Latin "debitum", and the letter "s" in "island" is a misplaced attempt to link it to Latin "insula" instead of the Old English word "īġland", which is the true origin of the English word. The letter "p" in "ptarmigan" has no etymological justification whatsoever, only seeking to invoke Greek despite being a Gaelic word. The spelling of English continues to evolve.

title: April Ryan (The Longest Journey)

text: father, wherein he was injured. Without a word of goodbye to her mother, April left for Newport, an industrial megapolis. At the beginning of "The Longest Journey", as a resident of the technology-driven world, Stark, she discovers that she is a "Shifter" - a person with the power to move between worlds. Her journey begins when she unwittingly transports herself to the magical Arcadia. She is the daughter of the White Dragon, as she herself felt a connection between the two of them and it is confirmed by the White Dragon. Moreover, her Stark parents adopted her. April is prophesied

title: What Time Is Love?

text: song on their sixteenth album "Music for a Big Night Out". In 2006, English electronic musician Max Tundra released a single as that included a recording from 1989 doing a cover of "What Time Is Love?" The three reworkings of the track were written and produced by Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty. Cauty also receives credit for playing electric guitar, bass, drums and keyboards on "America...", and Drummond for playing Gibson 330 on that version. Additional contributors to "What Time Is Love? (Live at Trancentral)" and "America: What Time Is Love?" included: As a central track in The KLF's canon,