dgg@mit-athena.ARPA (David G. Grubbs) (05/26/84)
What kind of idiocy is calling "shit" the longest one syllable word in the English language? There are thousands of one syllable, five letter words, and thousands of one syllable four letter words which can be made into five letter words by adding an 's'. This topic is something which is hard to look up and therefore is an appropriate subject for this news group. Anyone got a longer one syllable word than "straight"?
reid@uwvax.ARPA (05/27/84)
Re: anyone witha longer one-syllable word than "straight"? How about "strengths" ? (It is also interesting because it only has one vowel...) Glenn Reid reid@wisc-rsch.ARPA ..seismo!uwvax!reid
marcus@pyuxt.UUCP (M. G. Hand) (05/28/84)
It depends entirely on how it is pronounced! ("SHIIIIIIIIIIT!")
marcus hand (pyuxt!marcus)marcus@pyuxt.UUCP (M. G. Hand) (05/28/84)
When i was a kid i always was told it was "smiles" because there's a mile between the first and the last letter.....
halle1@houxz.UUCP (J.HALLE) (05/29/84)
Boy, all you fuddy-duddies have absolutely no sense of humor. I got the joke immediately. Sh*t is most certainly the longest one syllable word, not spatially, but temporally. Try saying it the way they do in certain parts of the country. It takes a full second at least. Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee*t, are you folks dumb.
ken@ihuxq.UUCP (ken perlow) (05/31/84)
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Martin Gardner did this one years ago--and the answer is--
"broughammed". Sorry to spoil the fun. Well, not really.
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