The Longest Words Out.
Tradition says tha£ the patron saint of a certain "’Welsh’ chiirch bears a na’me which runs’into thr«Se liies of print. _ But one lihe of German fact is worth three lines of Welsh fiction. A, Berlin newspaper has ;been offering prizes for long’words, and this is fhe stately winner :r— ’ Traansvaaltruppentropentransporttrampelthiertreiteitrauuagsthrilnencragbiie.
The interpretation of this somewhat involved idea woilld be “ The tearful tragedy of the marriage (though- why tragedy and why tearful ?) of a dromedary driver on the transport of the Transvaal troops to the tropics.!’ Another gigantic attempt at alliterative wordimaking looks hardly less appalling:— " MekkamuselmamiemnassenmencheliiiUrcleriTiohranmuttermarmorinonumentennoacher;
which is suppos'd to mean “ the maker of a marble monument, for the Moorish mother of a wholesale 'assassin among the Mussulmans At Mecca.” ’ It is only in Gerthany that they can do this sort ofthirig.
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Evening Star, Issue 7255, 5 July 1887, Page 3
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136The Longest Words Out. Evening Star, Issue 7255, 5 July 1887, Page 3
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