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What is the longest 2 syllable word?
SQUAITCHED-MOUTHED
[EDD] The associated 17-letter SQUAITCHED-MOUTHED (lying, deceitful) is the longest known 2-syllable dictionary term.
What is the longest word without syllables?
The one that’s most commonly cited is screeched (nine letters). But there are also schlepped, scratched, scrounged, scrunched, stretched, and the plural nouns straights and strengths (all with nine letters).
What is the shortest 2 syllable word?
Io may be the shortest two syllable word in the English language. Other candidates are aa, ai, and eo, but there is some dispute over the pronunciation and legitimacy of these words. Iouea, five letters long, is the shortest four syllable English word.
What is the longest sentence in English literature?
The Rotters
Some facts about long sentences Jonathan Coe’s novel, ‘The Rotters’ Club’, contains a sentence of 13,955 words. This is generally considered to be the longest sentence in English literature. One of Molly Bloom’s soliloquies in James Joyce’s epic novel ‘Ulysses’ features a sentence of 4,491 words.
What’s the longest 1 syllable word?
Scraunched
Scraunched and the archaic word strengthed, each 10 letters long, are the longest English words that are only one syllable long. Nine letter monosyllabic words are scratched, screeched, scrounged, squelched, straights, and strengths.
What is the longest word with only vowels?
Euouae
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 is the longest one-syllable word?
What is the longest one-syllable English word? The one that’s most commonly cited is screeched (nine letters). But there are also schlepped, scratched, scrounged, scrunched, stretched, and the plural nouns straights and strengths (all with nine letters).
What is the longest sentence in the world?
The World’s Longest Sentence (5237 words) by Mark Virtue (1980, aged 15) Once upon a while back there was an ambitious contortionist who made up his mind he would try to conquer the twenty-seventh highest dead volcano on Neptune, with his tongue secretly hiding behind his overweight postman’s Swedish Hi-Fi set and the shoelaces
How to avoid repetitive sentence beginnings?
Read my previous posts on how to avoid overused words and overused body language. To avoid repetitive sentence beginnings, keep an eye out for multiple sentences in a row beginning with the same word. Most often, repetitive sentence beginnings start with: a conjunctive adverb (then).
How many times can you start a sentence with the same word?
Try mixing it up—start some sentences with words other than names or pronouns. There are no hard-and-fast rules about how many repetitions are too many, but I’d say two times in a row is fine; three times might be too much.