LONGEST WORD
According to the Guiness
book of World Records, the longest word ever to occur in a literary
work has to do with a fricassee, with 17 sweet and sour ingredients, including brains,
honey vinegar, fish, pickles, and ouzo. The word appears in The Ecclesiazusae, a satirical
comedy by Aristophanes (443-388?
BC), an Athenian playwright. In Greek, the word is 170 letters, transliterated into English it is 182 letters. Lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypotrimmatosilphiopar aomelitokatakechymenokichlepikossyphophattoperisteralektryonopteke phalliokigklopeleiolagoiosiraiobaphetraganopterygon.