Wednesday, 4 May 2011

English anyone!

Since the 1st post on this blog there has been nothing posted here other than recipes. Well, its certainly not that we won't be posting recipes anymore. We will be back to our usual job of posting "around-the-world-tasty-recipes" from tomorrow.

But then... what to do today?!? The title reads "English anyone!" But what  does it mean and how does it have (if any) relation to recipes?

Without any further beating about the bush, let me just tell you what I am here to tell you:

The longest coined English word is actually a name of a dish!!! However you will not find it in a dictionary. It is an ancient Greek transliteration. An ancient Greek comedic playwright Aristophanes in his play Assemblywomen (Ecclesiazousae), created a word of 183 letters. This word describes a dish. And this word is made by stringing together its ingredients.

And here is the word:

Lopadotemakhoselakhogameokranioleipsanodrimypotrimmatosilphiokara-bomelitokatakekhymenokikhlepikossyphophattoperisteralektryonoptokep-halliokigklopeleiolagōiosiraiobaphētraganopterýgōn.

Quite a biG word isn't it?!?








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