I am aware that there may be some of you out there who assume I get all my ideas from the The Big Boy’s Book of Wizard Words and I won’t spoil things by confirming or denying it. I do, however, like words and their usage – so anything that pops up on the World [...]
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Absolutely snowed under, so I’ll beg your leave for a short and sweet one today. A frittle (etymology unknown, although quite possibly from the Latin frittilus, a dice cup with an inlaid pattern) is the mark left in skin when it has been in contact with a textured surface for some time. A frittle could [...] .flickr-photo { } .flickr-frame { float: left; text-align: center; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } [...] I really had to include this one. It is – at twenty-nine letters – the longest non-technical word in the Oxford English Dictionary. I stress the “non-technical” aspect because when it comes to chemical compounds, for example, the length of a word to describe them could be effectively limitless in size. Pronounced (deep breath) flock-y-nau-chee-nee-hilly-pilly-fik-ashun, [...] |
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