[B]loath'd[/B] ? or else it seems not mono... what he said.

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Not XCIV?

[QUOTE=Batalov;432516][B]loath'd[/B] ? or else it seems not mono... what he said.[/QUOTE]If you wish. In the speech which I learned "loathed" has but one sound.

Very impressive (and funny) efforts, Jane and Paul -- those are both originals, yes?

[QUOTE=xilman;432518]If you wish. In the speech which I learned "loathed" has but one sound.[/QUOTE]

How about "sheer"?

[QUOTE=ewmayer;432539]Very impressive (and funny) efforts, Jane and Paul -- those are both originals, yes?[/QUOTE]It's a long tale. Some years back I read a piece in [i]The Times[/i] which used this style and so I chose to us it as well. Since then I have used it a few times for the piece which you have now seen.

Most of the words are the Bard's, of course, as is all the sense but the rest I tend to write in a fresh way each time. For that one I read one page on my screen which held the true words and one in which to type the work. The text was made up a word or a phrase at a time, as the rules of the game need.

Paul

(As you can see, it is not that hard to write stuff like this.)

[QUOTE=axn;432542]How about "sheer"?[/QUOTE]That too.

[QUOTE=ewmayer;432539]Very impressive (and funny) efforts, Jane and Paul -- those are both originals, yes?[/QUOTE]

I can't claim authorship; I found it while searching the web for something totally different, and thought it would be appreciated by a wider audience of erudite, educated and well-read people.

[URL="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_longest_English_words_with_one_syllable"]List of the longest English words with one syllable[/URL]
The USA monosyllabic [I]squirrel[/I] variant rears its head in our airspace in a ten letter variety in this list.

And I now have a noun/verb by way of Umberto Eco that could be also be a participle form to describe the experience of electing The Donald: "schtroumpfed /ˈʃtruːmpft/"

[QUOTE=BudgieJane;432572]I can't claim authorship; I found it while searching the web for something totally different, and thought it would be appreciated by a wider audience of erudite, educated and well-read people.[/QUOTE]

Ah - thanks. FYI, some of the rest of us enjoyed it as well. :)

[QUOTE=only_human;432577][URL="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_longest_English_words_with_one_syllable"]List of the longest English words with one syllable[/URL]
The USA monosyllabic [I]squirrel[/I] variant rears its head in our airspace in a ten letter variety in this list.

And I now have a noun/verb by way of Umberto Eco that could be also be a participle form to describe the experience of electing The Donald: "schtroumpfed /ˈʃtruːmpft/"[/QUOTE]I've not yet checked the list. The longest in my working memory is "broughammed", pronounced brumd, and means conveyed in Brougham, a type of horse driven carriage.

Now to check ...

Yup.