TEST FOR SPELLERS
LONGEST ENGLISH WORD [from our own correspondent] LONDON, March 19 What is the longest word in the English language? Antidisestablishnientarianisni, con tratransubstantiationn lists, and all ti-iuterdenonii nationalistic-ally, are three that may spring to mind at once, but what of photospectroheliographically,' anthroponiorphologically, rhombicosidodecahedronally, floccinaucinihilipilifioation, and syncategoreinaticableness ? These are a few which the interuniversit.v spelling bee teams are hoping they will not be asked to spell next week.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23010, 11 April 1938, Page 15
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69TEST FOR SPELLERS New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23010, 11 April 1938, Page 15
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