On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 10:36:28 -0500, Michael Levy <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>. On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 09:00:48 -0500 Jeff Kell wrote:
>
>> Reef Fish wrote:
>>
>> > Any other answers?  What about the longest scuba-related word?
>>
>> If your diving takes you near any active volcanoes, you could contract
>> pneumonultramicroscopicsilicavolcanoconiosis.

The webpage http://www.xent.com/sept99/0573.html  gave

   pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis

which is one letter more than Jeff's, as a miner's disease.  The
author said the correct spelling at the end should have been
"coniosis", which is what Jeff has.  I think those two are the
same word.  Jeff probably left out an "o" in "nou".  :-)


>Do town names count?

Can you scuba there?  :-)

>If so what about Welsh town Lanfair P.G. short for:
>Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
>
>In English it means
>"The Church of St Mary by the hollow of the white aspen, over the
>whirlpool, and St Tysilio's Church close to the red cave."

Yup.  I remember that!  :-)

But the one I found was the abbreviated version:

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrn

*>The railway station on the Isle of Anglesey off the north coast
*>of Wales is rundown and shabby, graced only by a small gift shop.
*>Why then do thousands of tourists flock there each year? And
*>why did James Pringle Ltd. of Scotland, parent company of Pringle
*>Sweaters, just pay British Rail more than $210,000 for it? Well,
*>because the station is called Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrn


If you REALLY have too much time on your hand, you should check out
World's Longest Palindrome: 15,139 words

A "pure" palindrome is a sentence that reads the same forward and
backwards, the best known of which is about Napoleon and his exile
to the island of Elba:

            Able was I ere I saw Elba

A 15,139 words palindrome???   Not a pure one, but it takes a nut
a long time to compose that one.

It starts with " A man, a plan, a caddy, ..."

and ends with, " a canal, Panama."

See http://www.norvig.com/palindrome.html

If you can read through that "thing", you've got a LOT  more time
on your hand than mine.

-- Bob.