for Sammie’s Weekend Writing Prompt where the given word is Lexicon.
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Can’t think of a word? Lexie can! Alexandra, a lexicon on legs!
Regional Word Quiz, yesterday.
Question. What’s the longest word in the Oxford English Dictionary?
“Antidisestablishmentarian”.
Question. What’s an alexandrine?
“A line of verse in iambic hexameter with a caesura after the third foot”.
Question. What’s at the bottom of the left-hand column on page 168 of Webster’s Lexicon?
“One-six-eight”. A trick question, but Lexie was right!
A Lexiefact for you, the abbreviated form of World Wide Web, WWW, has three times the syllables!‘
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*BTW, the longest word in the English language has 1906 letters, but it’s a technical expression that does not qualify for inclusion in the dictionary. I don’t know what it is, I’ll have to ask Lexie!
Lexi’s right — WWW takes a lot more time to say than “word wide web.” Clever girl!
Oh yes! Cheers, Christine.
It’d save a few syllables if she’s from the South US and says dub-ya dub-ya dub-ya. 😉
So she would!
From my youth I remember the TV show “64 thousand dollar question” and they asked for the longest word. It was antidisestablishmentarianism. Then someone came along and said it was the medical term pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. Why do I remember useless stuff???
How you remember to spell it beats me! Actually, they were right, I’ve just looked it up in my OED! I can’t wait to tell Lexie!
Some people are walking fact books!
I’m not one of them!
I’d never thought of that! Well done, Keith!
<3
David
It is a bit strange! Cheers, David.
A very clever post Keith
Thanks so much, Sadje!
My pleasure
Well done, Keith. We might say, “dubya cubed.” I noticed the poetic reference. 🙂
You could say wa-wa-wa! The poetic reference makes no sense to me whatsoever!
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Hats off to your lexical assistant! (And to you, of course – I did enjoy this).
Most kind of you, she will be delighted with your cornucopian comment!
Fun post Keith.
Thank you so much.