2021年4月18日 · @curiousdannii I agree that the way the question was posed invites a type of response where people just shout words and argue about how long or meaningful they are. However, user6726 recognized (as I suspected) that a better way to pose the question is: "Can we ask what the longest word without vowels is?" and provided a great response to it.

2021年9月18日 · Longest word in all languages [closed] Ask Question Asked 3 years, 4 months ago. Modified 3 years, 3 ...

For this reason, a lot of people misspell it as ndio (which is also a valid word). The difference between ndio and ndiyo is class agreement. Ndio uses a C2, C3, C11 or C14 morpheme -o , whereas ndiyo uses -yo , a C3, C6, or C9 morpheme.

2011年12月14日 · The current world record (and English-language) is 160 characters/26 words in 10.7 sec, without errors, by Rachael Loncar, as of 10/2011. Predictive text can make you >2x faster. Predictive text can make you >2x faster.

9 vowels. Saueøyeeier (the owner of the sheep eye, a constructed word) 7 vowels. Niøyeøye (the eye of a fish called Niøye, not very common word, but possible) 12 vowels. Niøyeøyeøyeier (the owner of an island named after the eye of a fish called Niøye, this is a constructed word, but still understandable)

2021年1月15日 · "Word" is not a well-defined technical concept in linguistics (or, some people may have concocted a definition of "word" for their purposes, but there isn't even a widely-believed definition). The best definition is "a maximal string of letters not containing spaces", and that's really not very good (not all writing systems use spaces, plus ...

2012年6月29日 · Also (though less relevant to my question), I don't understand why you say a longest English word can't exist: English has been around a finite number of seconds, spoken by a finite number of people, so there've been finitely …

2015年12月4日 · I am not sure about the oldest word, but the OED has early references for: pintle (Old English) pillicok from about 1328 onwards. prick from about 1558 onwards. pillo(c)k from 1568 onwards. cock from 1618 onwards

2024年11月4日 · Another good, although slightly different example is 'postfix.' It seems to have shifted to fit modern word definitions—one could expect 'post-' to be a better opposite to 'pre-' than 'suf-' (really 'sub'). Extra bonus question: should these new creations be considered valid words? Do they belong in a dictionary?

2013年3月28日 · My favorite example is that the word "fewest" is missing in Swedish. Swedish has close equivalents for few and fewer but switches to "minst antal" (roughly "least number") for fewest (though some may mistranslate to the Swedish word for "smallest"). Of course, you might discount "fewest" since only "few" is common enough to qualify as important.