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Show V Word Is a Mouthful "What Is the longost word In tbe world? 1 am not rash enough to attempt at-tempt to answer that question," said a well-known author. "There Is a certain Welsh name of a placo which reaches me every now and then, and which I have printed mora than once, which la sufficiently toriuldablo. I believe be-lieve that the patient aud serious Gorman, Gor-man, have turned out some verbal monsters, and It may be that the Chlnose, tho Russians and other races with whose literature I am unacquainted unac-quainted have produced aeries of linked link-ed loiters long drawn out which are called words. Bo I curofully abstain from saying what Is the longest word In the world. nut I think I may venture to suggest sug-gest that there are not many words longer than one which may be found In I.lddcll and Scott's Crook lexicon. Here Is the modest trifle: "IvepadotomachoseluchogaleokranlO" oklopeleloluguoslralobalotraganopteru-gon. oklopeleloluguoslralobalotraganopteru-gon. "I hope I have coplod It correctly, hut there may be a slip here and there, and life Is not long enough to write It out twice, and the good printer, print-er, In whom I have the utmost confidence con-fidence may be excused If he stumbles stum-bles now and then. In English It ought to have IT? letters thore or thereabouts. "In Its original Crock form the letters let-ters would not be quite so numerVius, as 'ch 'ps' and 'ph are represented by one lotter. Tbo word la used by Aristophanes, who waa a comedlnn, nnd who therefore must have hla little Joke, and some of hi, little Jokes, by tho way, are not qulto nice. As to Its moaning, tbe learned lexicographers state that It Is 'the name of a dish compounded of all kinds of dainties, uiih, flesh, fowl and sauces.' "It would look well on a menu and I should lll.o to bear a badgered waiter wait-er trying t .t lown a loig-suf. fe-'n" .i or n -e. 1 an who haa j f. luy v .11 tinwl'm It c... , 1 Hc oud uL u.0 'rtnqu.t." |