Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1875 — Big Words. [ARTICLE]

Big Words.

A citizen of Baltimore has been hunting up some big words, and publishes them in the American for the benefit of the get-ter-up of spelling-matches. The worn offered is said to be the longest word in the English language, used often mold plays, and placed in the mouth of Costard, the clown in “ Love’s Labor Lost,” Act 5, Scene 1: “ Honorificabilitudinitatibus.” . s The next in “Pilgrims bf the Rhine,” by Bulwer, “ Amoronthologosphorus.”

The next from Rabelais. " AntijH-ricat-ametananaparbeugedamphic - Ribrationestoordecantium.” The next is tlie name of an officer now’ in Madrid, Don Juan Nepomuceno de Bnrionagonatorecagageazoeeha. The next is a town in the Isle of Mull, “ Drimtaidhvrickhillichattan.” The next, “Jungfraueuzimnierdurchsehwindsuchttoedlungsgegen verein. ” V Nitrophenyienediamine” and ” Polyphrasticominoniimegalondulalion” are two words that recently appeared in the London Times and Star. “ Sankashtacliaturthivratodyapana.” “ Swapanehaksharimanamu’utcastora.” The names of two productions of Sanscrit literature. ‘ ■ phattoperiserrtlsktmonoptegkepblokigklopeleiolagoossiraiobaphetraganoptefugon.” This last word is the longest in any language. It may be found in the “Ekklesiazousai” of Aristophanes, a very excellent comedy, and placed in the mouth o one of the actors. It consists of 160 letters, and makes seventy-seven syllables, and must have created some laughter when spoken. Some actors .of the present day would hardly risk it.