Strange but true...

2lazybutsmart

In Massachusetts, there's a lake called Charogoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg.

It means: you fish on your side, I fish on my side, and no one fishes in the middle. hahaha

Wonder who came up with that name.

2lbs.

Webmaster

Wonder who came up with that name.

Probably the Massachusetts Indians.

pmann

Our friends in New Zealand can beat that for length. There is a maori name for a hill some place in NZ which is 85 letters;

TAUMATAWHAKATANGIHANGAKOAUAUOTAMATEATURIPUKAKAPIKI- MAUNGAHORONUKUPOKAIWHENUAKITANATAHU

There is a also a 58 letter place in Wales called...

LLANFAIRPWLLGWYNGYLLGOGERYCHWYRNDROBWLLLLANTYSILIOGOGOGOCH

And the record for the longest placename in the world (with separate words) is the full name for Bangkok, the capital city of Thailand;

KRUNGTHEP MAHANAKHON BOVORN RATANAKOSIN MAHINTHARAYUTTHAYA MAHADILOKPOP NOPARATRATCHATHANI BURIROM UDOMRATCHANIVETMAHASATHAN AMORNPIMAN AVATARNS ATHIT SAKKATHATTIYAVISNUKARMPRASIT

meaning "The land of angels"

Im glad I dont have to fill out any of those addresses on my tax return!

Ricka182

2lazybutsmart wrote:

In Massachusetts, there's a lake called Charogoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg.

It means: you fish on your side, I fish on my side, and no one fishes in the middle. hahaha

I only live a few hours from there, and try to go a few times a year. I actually go the CT side, but the lake has signs everywhere. They had a contest, to see who could say it the fastest......not me!!! lol

Webmaster

pmann wrote:

And the record for the longest placename in the world (with separate words) is the full name for Bangkok, the capital city of Thailand;

KRUNGTHEP MAHANAKHON BOVORN RATANAKOSIN MAHINTHARAYUTTHAYA MAHADILOKPOP NOPARATRATCHATHANI BURIROM UDOMRATCHANIVETMAHASATHAN AMORNPIMAN AVATARNS ATHIT SAKKATHATTIYAVISNUKARMPRASIT

meaning "The land of angels"

That combined with the fact that in Thai a vowel can be pronounced in 5 different tones... each with its own meaning.

2lazybutsmart

Webmaster wrote:

Probably the Massachusetts Indians.

Yup. Apparently the word wasn't that long; it was a couple of shorther pieces put together to form that long chunck-of-a-word.

The Enlgish word with the most syllables is (if u ever watched Marry Poppins ): supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. And this one is in the Oxford dictionary

2lbs.

pmann

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http://members.aol.com/gulfhigh2/words.html

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