EunoiaEunoia, at six letters long, is the shortest word in the English language that contains all five main vowels.
What word takes 3 hours to say?, METHIONYLTHREONYLTHREONYGLUTAMINYLARGINYL …
All told, the full chemical name for the human protein titin is 189,819 letters, and takes about three-and-a-half hours to pronounce.
Furthermore, What is the longest and shortest word?, In English, the shortest words are four letters long. In some other languages, we use words of only two characters. The longest words are 17-18 letters – for example, “environmentalists” and “unenthusiastically”. The longest word in any language so far is in Portuguese – ‘caracteristicamente’.
Finally, What is the longest word with 3 words?, 3 Floccinaucinihilipilification (twenty-nine letters) is the estimation of something as valueless. Ironically, floccinaucinihilipilification is a pretty valueless word itself; it’s almost never used except as an example of a long word.
Frequently Asked Question:
Which word has 5 vowels in a row?
Words with five consecutive vowels include QUEUEING, AIEEE, COOEEING, MIAOUED, ZAOUIA, JUSSIEUEAN, ZOOEAE, ZOAEAE.
Which word has all 5 vowels?
Eunoia, at six letters long, is the shortest word in the English language that contains all five main vowels. Seven letter words with this property include adoulie, douleia, eucosia, eulogia, eunomia, eutopia, miaoued, moineau, sequoia, and suoidea.
What English word contains all 5 vowels in alphabetical order?
The word Iouea, a genus of sea sponges, contains all five regular vowels and no other letters. […] There are many words that feature all five regular vowels occurring only once in alphabetical order, the most common being abstemious and facetious.
What word has only vowels?
Euouae, at six letters long, is the longest English word consisting only of vowels, and, also, the word with the most consecutive vowels. Words with five consecutive vowels include cooeeing and queueing.
What word has 4 vowels in a row?
4 Vowels In A Row
| Word | Length | Vowels |
| Onomatopoeia | 12 | 8 |
| Queue | 5 | 4 |
| Montesquieu | 11 | 6 |
| Aqueous | 7 | 5 |
What word is 189 819 letters long?
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The word is 189,819 letters long. It’s actually the name of a giant protein called Titin. Proteins are usually named by mashing-up the names of the chemicals making them. And since Titin is the largest protein ever discovered, its name had to be equally as large.
Is there a word longer than Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis?
The longest words in the dictionary are: antidisestablishmentarianism – opposition to the disestablishment of the Church of England – 28 letters. floccinaucinihilipilification – the estimation of something as worthless – 29 letters. pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis – a supposed lung disease – 45 letters.
What is the longest and shortest word?
In English, the shortest words are four letters long. In some other languages, we use words of only two characters. The longest words are 17-18 letters – for example, “environmentalists” and “unenthusiastically”. The longest word in any language so far is in Portuguese – ‘caracteristicamente’.
What are the 5 longest words?
10 Longest Words in the English Language
- Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (45 letters) …
- Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia (36 letters) …
- Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (34 letters) …
- Pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism (30 letters) …
- Floccinaucinihilipilification (29 letters) …
- Antidisestablishmentarianism (28 letters)
What is the shortest word?
Eunoia, at six letters long, is the shortest word in the English language that contains all five main vowels. Seven letter words with this property include adoulie, douleia, eucosia, eulogia, eunomia, eutopia, miaoued, moineau, sequoia, and suoidea. (The scientific name iouea is a genus of Cretaceous fossil sponges.)
What word takes 3 hours to say?
METHIONYLTHREONYLTHREONYGLUTAMINYLARGINYL …
All told, the full chemical name for the human protein titin is 189,819 letters, and takes about three-and-a-half hours to pronounce.
What is the short name of the longest English word?
Major dictionaries
The longest word in any of the major English language dictionaries is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, a word that refers to a lung disease contracted from the inhalation of very fine silica particles, specifically from a volcano; medically, it is the same as silicosis.
What is the longest word in the world?
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
Appearing in the Oxford English Dictionary, this 45-letter word for a disease is the longest English word that is defined in a major dictionary. It’s a technical word referring to the lung disease more commonly known as silicosis.
What word is 189 819 letters long?
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The word is 189,819 letters long. It’s actually the name of a giant protein called Titin. Proteins are usually named by mashing-up the names of the chemicals making them. And since Titin is the largest protein ever discovered, its name had to be equally as large.
What does Methionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylarginyl isoleucine mean?
So what’s the word? Wikipedia’s says that it’s “Methionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylarginyl … isoleucine” (ellipses necessary), which is the “chemical name of titin, the largest known protein.” Also, there’s some dispute about whether this is really a word.
What is the longest shortest word?
1. Methionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylarginyl… isoleucine ,the chemical name of TINTIN,contains 1,89,819 letters.
Is Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious the longest word?
5 What’s the longest word you know? If you watched Mary Poppins as a child, you might quickly think of supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (thirty-four letters). … It is also one of the longest monosyllabic words of the English language. 8 Euouae is six letters long, but all of the letters are vowels.
Radio 1 presenter Chris Moyles doing his bit for the community
Q. Five years ago, I switched on the radio at breakfast and heard a man who was incapable of coherent speech or thought.
He could only umm and err for a few minutes before coming up with a succession of blindingly obvious statements, generally delivered in a bullish tone pitched somewhere between paranoia and aggression.
At first, I was a little mystified, but I soon realised I was listening to some sort of medical programme, and that this poor man was being paraded, unkindly in my view, as an example of someone who was, as we used to say, a little ‘simple’.
Since then, this same sad creature has been exhibited on the radio for two or three hours every day. Isn’t there something in the BBC’s charter to prevent it from holding up someone to public ridicule in this cruel manner?
A. Chris Moyles has been presenting the Radio 1 Breakfast Show since January 2004. A BBC spokesman explains: ‘Chris remains a valued member of our outreach programme.
‘It is not his fault that he has never been able to master the ability to articulate his meaning, if any. The Corporation’s charter expressly requires us to honour our duty to the community of those, like Chris, who need to be given time to make their needs heard.’
More from Craig Brown for the Daily Mail…
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- As Sarah Ferguson continues to regale the public with stories of the late-Queen’s grieving corgis while promoting her new novel, CRAIG BROWN says it all sounds a bit barking 10/04/23
- CRAIG BROWN: My phone’s so smart, it can walk the dog…or what you can expect from the next 50 years of the mobile 06/04/23
- CRAIG BROWN: Don’t always judge a writer by his writing 27/03/23
- CRAIG BROWN: Bedazzled by love at first slight! 22/03/23
- CRAIG BROWN: The cigarette holder’s gone in a puff of smoke… just like Tipp-Ex, floppy disks, alcopops, skiffle and Yellow Pages 21/03/23
- CRAIG BROWN: Don’t let’s be beastly to The Beatles…unless your name is Noel Coward 14/03/23
- CRAIG BROWN: Why we’re all obsessed with killer TV series like Murdaugh Murders 08/03/23
- CRAIG BROWN: News just in from Harry and Meghan’s new hometown of Montecito… yes, watching paint dry CAN save the world 07/03/23
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Q. We all know that the longest word in the English language is Floccinaucinihili-pilification, meaning inconsiderable or trifling. But what is the shortest word in the English language?
A. This is a controversy that has divided the English-speaking community for more than a century. One faction, headed by Dr Robert Beauchamp from the Oxford English Dictionary, believes that the shortest word in the English language is ‘a’, while another faction, headed by Professor Melanie Kurtz from Chicago University, contends that it is ‘I’.
In his most recent book on the subject, Further Arguments In Favour Of A (OUP, £19.99), Dr Beauchamp claims that, though ‘I’ is arguably the thinnest word in the English language, ‘a’ is the shortest, in the sense that it is not as high.
Professor Kurtz, on the other hand, has argued in a number of pamphlets that, if one unravels the various loops and curls that form a single ‘a’, and stretch it into a single horizontal or perpendicular line, then the letter in question is undoubtedly longer than ‘I’.
Meanwhile, dissident scholars continue to argue the case for ‘o’ and for small ‘i’, though in broader academic circles the first is generally dismissed as not really a word and the second is felt to be questionable: they maintain that the gap between the little dot and the main body of the word/letter is a constituent part of the whole and cannot be discounted when it comes to the full measurement.
Robin Hood was, in fact, named after the roundabout on the A3
Q. I often drive around the Robin Hood Roundabout on the A3, leading into Roehampton. Please settle an argument. Is it named after Robin Hood?
A. No. Robin Hood was, in fact, named after the roundabout. This legendary Sherwood Forest-based outlaw was originally called Robin H. Roundabout, but in time his followers, or ‘Mary Men’ (so-called on account of their supposed effeminacy), came to call him by the more familiar ‘Robin Hood’.
Scholars continue to debate why the expert marksman Robin H. Roundabout should have been named after a road junction more than 150 miles south of where he was born and brought up.
It seems unlikely this matter will ever be resolved, though some believe the newly-discovered archive of historical documents relating to his long-suffering mother, Mrs Kingston By-Pass, may well reveal the truth, as her family is thought to have come from that area.
Q. I know that the person who is 793,524th in line to the throne is HRH Princess Michael of Kent, but who is the 793,525th?
A. A spokesman for the Royal College of Heralds says: ‘The person who is 793,525th in line to the British throne is Dot Branning from EastEnders, currently played by actress June Brown.’
Q. Enid Blyton wrote a series of novels recounting the adventures of The Famous Five. By the time the later novels were published, this gallant group were indeed famous, but how famous were they before the first novel was published? And, if they weren’t famous at all, why were they already known as The Famous Five?
A. Though you are right to point out that they were not collectively famous when their adventures first appeared in print, each of them was individually famous.
Dick had written a pioneering misery memoir, I Don’t Like It When You Touch Me There, Uncle Quentin and a successful follow-up, I Don’t Like It When You Touch Me There Again, Uncle Quentin.
Anne and Julian had starred alongside Shirley Temple in the movie Little Miss Broadway. Timmy the Dog had acted as Rin-Tin-Tin’s stunt double in a number of his later movies. And George had been part of the long-running Ladyboys of Bangkok revue, touring throughout Europe and North America.
Together, they could be said to have ushered in today’s Celebrity Culture.
The answer: FEEDBACK
Feedback is one of the essential elements of good communication in any relationship, in the workplace or otherwise and it can build or lose trust quickly. As feedback is about clear communication, it’s also a reflection of your company culture.
I’ve had a number of conversations recently with clients about “feedback”. Many of them have been given what I would consider inadequate feedback in that it’s all one way, namely pure criticism or “this is what’s wrong”.
Why is it important to give feedback about what was even slightly positive or good about somebody’s actions and thinking? Feedback should, in my opinion, also be part of a learning process so that the person receiving it also receives ideas for “learning” to improve performance.
Neuroscientific findings suggest repetition creates new neuronal pathways, e.g. new thoughts and behaviours. Therefore, being focused on repeat behaviours or thoughts that worked even a bit on a daily basis, perhaps even several times a day, can help individuals build on success (see counter intuition below).
A quick test for you:
1) Recall the number of times you have received valuable feedback in the last week.
2) For each time place one finger of your left hand on your desk
3) For each time YOU have given what you believe was valuable feedback put one finger of your right hand on your desk
Have you run out of fingers? On both hands?
- If you placed lots of fingers on your desk just now, the chances are that you work in a LEARNING culture.
- If one or both of your hands still has a number of unused fingers the chances are that you work in a POWER culture.
- In a LEARNING culture, feedback is part of a LEARNING game. In a culture that favours POWER, feedback is part of the POWER game
Individuals who recognise the value of feedback can by choosing their words and conversations start to affect the quality of their relationships which in turn positively affects the quality of their cultures and starts changing these cultures so that feedback becomes a powerful internal “tool”.
Yes, you might be thinking – all good in theory but what about the real world?
The success of Pixar – a business example
Pixar is the only film studio to have had nothing but hits and, according to Pixar Studio’s President, a peer-driven process for solving problems is behind this string of movies. In the Harvard Business Review, report Author Ed Catmull points out that there is a culture of giving and receiving feedback at every phase of the project. Pixar Studios conducts formal reviews when a project is complete, including at least five things that went well in the movie as well as five that didn’t.
Pixar Studios have also reframed feedback as helping each other improve performance and also make it clear that the individual concerned doesn’t have to follow this just to consider the feedback openly.
Intuitive Logic – looking at what you’ve done wrong rarely proves fruitful.
Whether in feedback or other contexts we tend to first want to confront people with what they have done wrong. Our ‘intuitive logic’ is usually that only once they will see what they have done wrong and will have taken responsibility for this wrong-doing will they be able and ready to start doing something about it. And although this sounds logical, it is doubtful whether it works. When people notice that they are expected to admit they behaved badly or made mistakes, they will often start to defend themselves and to justify their behaviour. Also, they may start pointing fingers at other people who, in their eyes have done wrong things, or point to circumstances which justify why they did what they did. When people are confronted they may feel threatened and not appreciated.
When this happens it is usually rather hard for them to open up and to start exploring ways to start finding solutions. This stuff is simple!
Rob Rave
In a number of the recent posts and comments on authenticity, feedback and in particular our fear of feedback has featured heavily. Why are we so afraid of feedback? What happens if these fears are left unaddressed? And if we agree that feedback is a good thing, how can we get over our fears?
I think there is no question that a lot of us are fearful (if even only slightly) of feedback. Those on the receiving end worry they’ll hear nothing but criticism or are unable to properly assimilate the feedback – this often leads to negative or destructive behaviours, for example:
– Procrastination: I’ll talk to them about it next week – as the quote goes nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task
– Denial: Do you really believe that the oft discussed promotion is really going to happen? Or are you simply in denial?
– Jealousy: Do you feel a slight pang when a boss openly praises another colleague? Comparing ourselves with others is normal unless it is based on envy or suspicion.
– Self-sabotage: You can’t do that! That’s way too difficult! If you try, you’ll probably just fail anyway – this little voice is in many ways the most insidious, as it can create a self fulfilling prophecy and lead to a vicious cycle. Another way this can manifest itself is sniping at your boss behind their back because of some perceived slight or remark – ultimately this can only result is more damage for you than them.
But also those the giving the feedback are often concerned or apprehensive about the process – they worry that communicating the slightest criticism will lead to anger, heated arguments, acting out or withdrawal by those on the receiving end.
Be honest, does any of this sound familiar?
However if we let these ‘imagined’ concerns or fears go unchecked and opt to live in a reality where we’d prefer to guess what others think rather that actually find out – it offers us little insight into how our performance is viewed by others? And how potentially they see that our performance can be improved?
In order to take feedback onboard, it generally involves change of some description – this makes it less of a technical problem (applying the knowledge/skillset we already have) and more of an adaptive challenge (requires learning). So perhaps some of adaptive approaches offer us a means to better manage our response to feedback and help introduce change.
In the next post I’ll look at some of the adaptive techniques and see how they can be applied to help view and react to feedback in a positive manner.
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