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justineo | 19:04 Thu 06th Oct 2005 | Quizzes & Puzzles
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What are the 2 longest one syllable words in the English language?
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Strengths ?
19:08 Thu 06th Oct 2005
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The OED gives the ten-letter word scraunched from the english translation of Don Quixote!
19:12 Thu 06th Oct 2005
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I just thought of strengths johnalex, never heard of scraunched, lelliej.  thanks
19:17 Thu 06th Oct 2005
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I go with the old joke - smiles - there is a mile from one end to the other!!!
19:33 Thu 06th Oct 2005
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You can have STRAIGHT as a noun, on a racetrack etc, so presumably you can have the plural, STRAIGHTS, which is nine letters.

20:30 Thu 06th Oct 2005
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Squirrelled. It doesn't work in standard British English, I know, but most North Americans pronounce the word as a monosyllable..."squirld", in effect...as in "He had squirrelled away money in lots of accounts."
20:55 Thu 06th Oct 2005
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'Strengths' is all the more unusual, having 8 consonants but only 1 vowel. Beat that!
00:46 Fri 07th Oct 2005
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screeched (and its variants) ,scratched, stretched, scrunched all have 9 letters.
I've yet to equal the 10-letter 'scraunched'......but it's not in Chambers
02:19 Sat 08th Oct 2005

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