Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-04-21
WORD ODDITIES.
Some Interesting curosities Of the
English Language.


English Language.
Here is some English that seldom Is
written and some other interesting GU
rioSitieS of Mother English.
ficabilitudinitatibus is rath-
er long word. You cannot find it in
the dictionary, but you will find it used
in Shakespeare and some of the other
early English writer's.
The word is meaningless. The only
interesting point about it is its length
Twenty seven letters in a breath are
quite few But our dictionary gives
some almost as long-for instance, the
following two of twenty-four letters
each:
TransubStantiatiOna
Inanthropomorph
Here are some of the other boa con"
strictOrs:
Twenty-three letters:
Disproportionablene
Twenty-Five:
Intercommunicabili
Twenty-one:
IntercOnvertibilitie
Twenty:
Histomorphologica
Interdifferentiation.
SupersensitivenesSes
HypersenstiVeneSSe
1t is safe to say that the ordinary
reader would not run on to one of
these in a hundred years, and if he did
he would run the other way.
1t is interesting to know that the
entire alphabet can be arranged in one
intelligible sentence without the repe-
titiOn of a single letter-just twenty
six letters in the following sentence,
and no two alike:
j. @. Vandz struck my big fox whelp.
That simple sentence is the hardest
possible one to write on the typewri-
ter. So many of the letters in the al
phabet are used so seldom that even a
good typist has to study out the COM
bination before finding some Of them
This sentence is the only known one
that contains every letter in the al
phabet but once and makes sense.
Another interesting word group in
which the entire alphabet is put into
seven words and only thirty-two let
terS are used is: Burst, fed, jingle
quip. vim, hack, ZyXomma." This is
the smallest number of words that the
alphabet can be included in.
Two ineligible sentences, however
of eight words and thirtytwo letters
apiece have been found. They are:
Quick brown fox jumps over the lazy
dog
Pack my box with five dozen liquor
jugs.
The first sentence is often used in
testing the types on typewriters on ac-
count of the shortncss and the fact
that it includes every letter and has
the advantage Of making sense
Here is a list of the longest mono
syllableS i'm English:
Seven letters. through: eight letters
strength, thoughts, starched, thrilled
ters. strengths, squelched. scratched
splOtched. stretched.
Probably the most interesting word
curiosity is the one made up Of the
greatest number of other words in the
regular sequence. That word is in
discrimination. In-disc- rim in at -On
contains seven words and is only six
teen letters long. That is allowing Il
fraction more than two letters to each
word. and only one word is repeated.
Here are two that have six separate
words within the one:
ASS-aSS-
Assassination.
In-fin- -it-at-i-On-
InfnitatiOn.
There do not seem to be any that can
be split up into five sensible parts. but
here are several quads:
m-Sat-i-ate-
InSatiate.
ASS-aSS-Sin- n-ate-
Assassinate.
Investigate
Investigate.
ln-it-i-atc-
Initiate.
Two three-parts words that make
sense when the parts are taken Sepa-
rately are:
TO-gct- her
Together.
ln-nO-ccnt-
Innocent.
The dictionary is full of funny and
curious things. This is only a small
part of the unusual things that you
can find out about words in an hours
peruSal of the most wOrdy book in the
English language.-New York Press