So, using adjectives = disguis[ing] the fact? Interesting. Evidently,
German is the only non-disguised language (and chile relleno con carne
asada should really be chilerellenoconcarneasada, and it's English
translation shouldn't be stufffed peppers with grilled beef* but
MR ZenWiz mrzen...@gmail.com wrote:
The longest word in any English language is the name of a small town in
Wales - Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyantysiliogogogoch (see
Wikipedia if you're curious about what and where this is). I had
thought it was 56 letters, but this one is 59.
The place names referenced are indeed used in English speaking
countries, but it ought to be borne in mind that the small town's name
is actually not an English word, bet a Welsh one (Welsh being a Celtic
language) the one from New Zealand is actually Mauri, rather than
English.
~ George
On Thu, 22 May 2014 13:59:54 -0500
anne-ology lagin...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello anne-ology,
Keith- whose name disproves the i before e rule
Apparently, that rule is not taught in English schools any more as there
are more word with I after E than t'other way round.
At least, according to QI.
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On 05/22/2014 12:10 PM, Urmas wrote:
Kracked_P_P---webmaster:
There are 797866 lines in the .dic file with the top one the number
of words.
Due to the author's error, it is shipped unmunched. In the proper form
it contains 476898 entries, probably even less if some wordforms are
missing.
On 05/23/2014 02:53 AM, David Love wrote:
MR ZenWiz mrzen...@gmail.com wrote:
The longest word in any English language is the name of a small town in
Wales - Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyantysiliogogogoch (see
Wikipedia if you're curious about what and where this is). I had
On Fri, 23 May 2014, Doug wrote:
On 05/23/2014 02:53 AM, David Love wrote:
MR ZenWiz mrzen...@gmail.com wrote:
The longest word in any English language is the name of a small town in
Wales - Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyantysiliogogogoch (see
Wikipedia if you're curious about
On 05/22/2014 12:10 PM, Urmas wrote:
Kracked_P_P---webmaster:
There are 797866 lines in the .dic file with the top one the number
of words.
Due to the author's error, it is shipped unmunched. In the proper form
it contains 476898 entries, probably even less if some wordforms are
missing.
On 5/21/2014 9:33 PM, Brian Barker wrote:
Since when have homophones been a problem?
I'm reminded of the sentence, Write a letter to Mrs. Wright, right now.
Virgil
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There are 797866 lines in the .dic file with the top one the number of
words. The rest of the lines are one word each. The .dic file treats
each line, except the first, as an individual word.
Each line is a correct spelling of a word. The first part of the list
are the capitalized words
), others, had some
interesting bits re. this continual squabble between the British the
States;
his Jabberwocky is a gem of a poem.
Just a bit of trivia for y'all ;-)
From: Mark LaPierre marklap...@aol.com
Date: Wed, May 21, 2014 at 7:37 PM
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re
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Date: Wed, May 21, 2014 at 8:18 PM
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Spell Check Dictionary
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
An anti-English troll- that's a new one for this list. :)
I can't say that I've studied every language in the world, but I did study
French, New
: [libreoffice-users] Re: Spell Check Dictionary
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There are 797866 lines in the .dic file with the top one the number of
words. The rest of the lines are one word each. The .dic file treats each
line, except the first, as an individual word.
Each line
There are two answers.
The longest word in any English language is the name of a small town
in Wales - Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyantysiliogogogoch
(see Wikipedia if you're curious about what and where this is). I had
thought it was 56 letters, but this one is 59. Hmm.
The
Perhaps a bit off the track:
I learned somewhere that the longest English word is smiles. Why? There
is a mile between the first and the last letter :-)
Kolbjoern
Den 22.05.2014 22:21, skreiv MR ZenWiz:
There are two answers.
The longest word in any English language is the name of a small
Kracked_P_P---webmaster:
There are 797866 lines in the .dic file with the top one the number of
words.
Due to the author's error, it is shipped unmunched. In the proper form it
contains 476898 entries, probably even less if some wordforms are missing.
That is close to 70% misrepresentation.
;-)
From: Mark LaPierre marklap...@aol.com
Date: Wed, May 21, 2014 at 7:37 PM
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Spell Check Dictionary
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
English sucks as a language anyway. It's a conglomeration of words
grafted on from many other real languages that mostly
Kracked_P_P---webmaster:
I might suggest he try the en_US dictionary that contains over 797
thousand words in its list,
That dictionary contains just 476898 words actually.
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Hi :)
It's interesting that i believed it until i saw who posted it. Now i have
no idea but think it's unlikely. I could believe the US trying to dumb
things or be less confusing by removing words so that people have fewer to
choose from.
Regards from
Tom :)
On 21 May 2014 18:09, Urmas
On 05/21/14 15:20, Tom Davies wrote:
Hi :)
It's interesting that i believed it until i saw who posted it. Now i have
no idea but think it's unlikely. I could believe the US trying to dumb
things or be less confusing by removing words so that people have fewer to
choose from.
Regards from
An anti-English troll- that's a new one for this list. :)
I can't say that I've studied every language in the world, but I did
study French, New Testament Greek and Ancient Hebrew. Guess what? They
ALL have weird rules, exceptions and strange words.
This would be due to the fact that
At 20:37 21/05/2014 -0400, Mark LaPierre wrote:
In almost all cases adding apostrophe s on the end of a word
denotes ownership, i.e. Tom's car, ..
With nouns and proper nouns, yes. (Actually grammatical possession,
not ownership: Tom may own Tom's car but Tom does not own Tom's home town!)
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