This week's Club Pogo challenges!
Solitaire Home Story : Clear 200 diamond cards this week!
Garden Blast : Use 170 bombs or bomb power-up combos this week!
World Class Solitaire HD : Place 200 cards into the foundation stacks this week!
Quote from: damian666 on June 18, 2006, 08:47:50 PM
Not me http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_word_in_the_English_language#Place_names
Quote from: damian666 on June 18, 2006, 08:33:50 PM
There is some debate as to whether or not a place name is a legitimate word. However, the longest officially recognized place name in an English-speaking country is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu (85 letters) which is a hill in New Zealand.
The longest place name in the United States (45 letters) is Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg, a lake in Webster, Massachusetts. This is incorrectly said to be Algonquin for "you fish your side of the water, I fish my side of the water, nobody fishes the middle". It actually means "Englishmen at Manchaug at the Fishing Place at the Boundary". The lake is known to Americans as Lake Webster. The longest hyphenated names in the U.S. are Winchester-on-the-Severn, a town in Maryland, and Washington-on-the-Brazos, a notable place in Texas history.
The station sign at Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch in North WalesThe 58 character name Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch is the famous name of a town in Anglesey in the United Kingdom. This place's name is actually 51 letters long, as certain character groups in Welsh are considered as one letter, for instance ll, ng and ch. It is generally agreed, however, that this invented name, adopted in the mid-19th century, was contrived solely to be the longest name of any town in Britain. The official name of the place is Llanfairpwllgwyngyll, commonly abbreviated to "Llanfairpwll" or the somewhat jocular "Llanfair PG". The longest station name in the UK, at 68 letters, is also in Wales: Gorsafawddacha'idraigodanheddogleddollônpenrhynareurdraethceredigion was specifically contrived to "beat" Llanfairpwllgwyngyll.
In Ireland, the longest English placename at 22 letters is Muckanaghederdauhaulia (from the Irish language, Muiceanach Idir Dhá Sháile, meaning pig-marsh between two saltwater inlets) in County Galway. If this is disallowed for being derived from Irish, or not a town, the longest at 19 letters is Newtownmountkennedy in County Wicklow.
It is questionable whether any of the above (with the exception of Newtownmountkennedy) are properly considered English words, being derived from Māori, Nipmuck, Welsh and Irish words respectively, or being a conjunction of individual English words.
Quote from: Tara on June 18, 2006, 05:50:55 PM:)) :)) :)) :))Quote from: flgal on June 18, 2006, 05:29:17 PM
If you stretched all the nerves in the body from end to end, they would be about 47 miles long. I don't know I'm almost on my last nerve and I don't think it's even 1 inch long
Humans have more than 600 muscles in their bodies. Gawd forbid I use them all at once is all I have to say about it.
There are more chickens than people in the world. That could be scary
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. Oh my!
There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball. If I don't watch what I eat there will that many dimples on my ass.
Mosquitoes have 47 teeth. TEETH?
Lip stick contains fish scales. Oh hell, no way!
Quote from: flgal on June 18, 2006, 05:29:17 PM
If you stretched all the nerves in the body from end to end, they would be about 47 miles long. I don't know I'm almost on my last nerve and I don't think it's even 1 inch long
Humans have more than 600 muscles in their bodies. Gawd forbid I use them all at once is all I have to say about it.
There are more chickens than people in the world. That could be scary
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. Oh my!
There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball. If I don't watch what I eat there will that many dimples on my ass.
Mosquitoes have 47 teeth. TEETH?
Lip stick contains fish scales. Oh hell, no way!