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#66390 04/19/02 07:13 PM
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W'ON, he's our supreme word-master, but lots can [and do, repeatedly] floccinaucinihilipilificate.


#66391 04/20/02 11:56 AM
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My favorite long word: Hair

hahahahahahaha!
Ahem. Sorry.


#66392 04/20/02 12:06 PM
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My favorite long word: Hair

In that vein, how 'bout Angel Falls ?


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In that vein, how 'bout Angel Falls ?

When? Can I stop that from happening?...OOOOPPSSSSS

Help, I've fallen, and I can't get up!

Oh, you knew that was coming!


#66394 04/20/02 08:15 PM
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Rapunzel said: My favorite long word: Hair

hahahahahahaha!
Ahem. Sorry.


My favorite long word: Hair.

--WO'Nplestiltskin hehehe





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Good to see a blast from the past.

Akshally – The Welsh railway station that you quoted was suggested in the mists of time as a good place to meet up one day:

I've found a good place for a party now that Rubrick, Juan Maria and David108 have made it to be Travellers in Cyberspace [journeyman]- it's in Wales. I can't guarantee the weather but it's a good place for linguaphiles:
http://www.llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.com (URL edited)


http://wordsmith.org/board/showthreaded.pl?Cat=&Board=miscellany&Number=1580

It made it back again:

http://wordsmith.org/board/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=words&Number=8083



#66396 04/21/02 12:02 AM
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Akshually® I think this is no longer the longest railway station name in Wales - therre is a place up by Aberystwyth which changed its name to one of these "little hollow by the third rock from the green tree in a large field that my Auntie Blodwen used to own" kinda inventions - don't know if I can dig up the details, but. :)


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A possibly apocryphal advertisement read:

"Would anyone who witnessed the fall of a lady in the High Street yesterday please contact ....."

Bingley


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Dear Maverick,

As a collector of life's more quirky trivia I should be very interested in that new Welsh Station name if you come across it again. There's always something new.....

dxb


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This one maybe?
There is a 66-letter place name in Wales, according to Dr. David Crystal's Encyclopedia of Language: GORSAFAWDDACHAIDRAIGODANHEDDOGLEDDOLONPENRHYNAREURDRAETHCEREDIGION, meaning "the Mawddach station and its dragon teeth at the Northern Penrhyn Road on the golden beach of Cardigan bay."
http://members.aol.com/gulfhigh2/words12.html


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