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chuckleoutloud - jip! right back on track of words of 14 letters.
Well done Zed! Well done!
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Wull. I'd never seen it before either, but she as good as translated it for us.
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that's actually what threw me, I guess -- I thought she was chuckling at some deeper meaning, not trying to explicate.  - joe (remember Occam's Razor) friday
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Seems like the honorable Anu has to take some sharp curves to get his 14-letter words together. ( keep nagging about them) Brobdingnagian.  As somewhere pronunciation is discussed, this one seems to escape all possibilities. Dingnag .
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Er--all possibilities of what?
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By my honest soul, I can't pronounce it: Brobdingnagian.
It's the ngn that gets stuck in my throat like the clay we are molded from.
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somebody'll be along to give you the IPA, but try this: audio file
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Thanks, what a word. I hear Brobdiggindaggian.  Ja, I can say that.
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Thanks, what a word. I hear Brobdiggindaggian. that's the jazz version.
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somebody'll be along to give you the IPA, but try this: audio file That's funny, I always imagined it pronounced Brob-ding-najian (rhymes with Asian). But then I don't know that I've heard anyone say it - it tends to be more of a written word (for obvious reasons perhaps).
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