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Hip Hop Forums => General Discussion => Topic started by: MaddStone on November 30, 2004, 01:28:00 AM
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Boy, 9, learns to spell 310-letter word
A nine-year-old US boy surprised his teacher when he correctly spelt out a 310-letter word in cla**.
Aaron Zweig was challenged to learn the word by his teacher at his school in Randolph, New Jersey, but she didn´t expect him to succeed.
Teacher Ruth Kalata told the Randoph Recorder: "I told him he should come back to me when he had learned the word, thinking he never would.
"But two weeks later he was back and spelled it in front of my cla**. It was really a joke to challenge him, but he thrives on challenges like that."
Ms Kalata said that last year, the boy learned to spell two, extremely long words, antidisestablishmentarianism and supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.
But the two words with 34 and 28 letters, respectively, were puny compared with the latest challenge.
The 310-letter word is too long to reproduce here but it starts: "Ornicopy..." and finishes: "ulinaniac".
It was apparently used by medieval scribes to refer to someone who practices divination or forecasting by means of phenomena, interpretation of acts or various other manifestations.
"When Aaron spelled the word in front my cla**, he paused part way through and told the cla** not to worry because he was almost done," said Ms Kalata.
"It amazed me that he could pause, make a comment, then continue spelling without losing his place."
Imagine this kid being an emcee, or battle emcee, he´d boggle ur mind like "what the heck is on" kinda vibe.
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Oh and for those who are really really curious and wanna use this as fuel for silly rhymes, here´s a link to the longest words in english language (the word in the above article is in the list as well and isnt even the longest word; go figure):
The Longest Words in Language
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yeah i think i shud also put a sentence together without spaces and puntuation and call it a word
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Good idea, why dont we just do that and see what peeps think of it.Also, we can claim that it actually means something and it should be uttered in melodic pronounciation to make it really cool. :-D
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Yeh ofcourse make it mean something in medical terms of the pre60´s but pronouced in ebonix of the post 90´s hahaha
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Ur onto something there my son.It sounds like a really good plan.Maybe we should explore that one.What thinketh thou?
Could even be a word thats very Elizabethan in nature twisted with some scientific phonetix and rolled into some kinda South Africanism.Well worth a try.We can make it 311 letters long.
Wonder whats the longest coherent sentence ever.