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Show J LONG WORDS. WhiJe our language does not contain such long words as are found in some other tongues nor so many words of unusual length, still we have several that are awkwardh- long for conversational purposes. pur-poses. We have "philoprogenitiveness," with twenty letters; "interconvertibilities," with twenty-one; twenty-one; "intercommunicabilities." with twenty-two; "disproportionableness," with twenty-three, and "transsubstautiationalists" and "contradistinguish-ability," "contradistinguish-ability," each containing twenty-four letters. An effective little word is "synacategorematic," as it manages to compress eight syllables into seventeen letters. - The longest monosyllables contain nine letters, and there are four examples: "splotched," "squelched," "strengths" and "stretched." New York Tribune. |