Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1915 — When Greek Meets German. [ARTICLE]

When Greek Meets German.

A Companion subscriber, jealous of the'claims of the classic languages to superiority even in the length of the words the ancients could upon occasion Invent, writes thus: “I notice that the Companion says, ‘No one can compete with the Teuton in word Joinery.’ But what do you think of the following word that you can find in Liddell & Scott’s Greek lexicon ? ‘Lepadotemachoselachogal kranioleipsanodrimupotrimmatosilphi*o paraomelltokatakechumenokichlepikossuphophattoperisteralektruonopte g * kephalokigklopeleiolagoosiraiobaphe t - raganopterugon.’ The meaning is t ‘A disk compounded of all kinds of dainties, fish, flesh and fowl.’ ” That is certainly an elaborate way of saying “hash.” —Youth’s Companion.