HONORIFICABILITUDINITATIBUS is the longest word consisting entirely of alternating vowels and consonants.
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES is the longest name of a country consisting of alternating vowels and consonants.
HYPoThAlAmICoHYPoPHYSeAlS is the longest word that can be spelled using chemical symbols
COCCIDIOCIDE is the longest word with orizontal symmetry (it reflects itself across a horizontal line)
the world's longest acronym according to the Guinness Book of Words is NIIOMTPLABOPARMBETZHELBETRABSBOMONIMONKONOTDTEKHSTROMONT (56 letters, 54 in Cyrillic). Found in the Concise Dictionary of Soviet Terminology, it means: The laboratory for shuttering, reinforcement, concrete and ferroconcrete operations for composite-monolithic and monolithic constructions of the Department of the Technology of Building-assembly operations of the Scientific Research Institute of the Organization for building mechanization and technical aid of the Academy of Building and Architecture of the USSR.
Interesting fact
According to the Encyclopaedia Britannica (15th ed.) PAKISTAN is an acronym for the five Northern units of India - Punjab, North-West Frontier (Afghan) Province, Kashmir, Sind and Baluchistan, and was coined in 1933 by Choudhary Rahmat Ali (1895-1951). However, according to the World Book Encyclopedia (1976), Pakistan means "land of the pure" in Urdu.
Did you know
"angry" and "hungry" are the only two words in common use ending in -gry.
3 comments:
initially whole bengal was destined to go to east pakistan, and whole punjab too. There is a town next to barmer in Rajasthan which had 85% hindu population and would have made it to India provided there was no connivance of Muslim League with Streaks.
It was due to Dr Shyama Prasad Mookerjee that we can see West Bengal and East Punjab in India. In case of Punjab, Sir choote ram's efforts againts M.A.Jinnah brought fruits.
If u remember "Rhinocerangutangdinf",where should u include it??
i don't know...that might be the longest named fictional animal, i tried searching the net... but didn't find anything worthwhile...
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