>the longest one syllable word in the English language is "screeched"

Hi spelchkr,

Seems I'm still catching up on threads that popped up while I was away last week.

I have seen other sources that claim the equally-long one-syllable words of "strengths", "broughams", and "craunched" (all 9), plus the longer words "scraunched"(10) and "squirrelled"(11).

Some people will no doubt take exception to the validity of some of these words and/or pronunciations. I'm not too keen on strength having a plural, "broughams" arguably has two syllables (bro'ms), "scraunched" scores minimal hits in on-line dictionaries but has the same lovely onomatopoeia as a (non-)word favourite of mine, "graunch", and "squirrelled" as one syllable? - definitely an improper pronunciation as far as I'm concerned. The claimant - Canadian I think - said he'd never heard anyone pronounce it multisyllabically.