Long Words, Excellent Words (I can hear them now)

[anarchist_nomad]

Gentle readers,

More than one of you has recently hinted[*] that I need to give y'all more of an opportunity to win those points that maybe redeemable for fabulous prizes!

As I am a benevolent Nomad, I am happy to comply with this request. This morning, as I was cycling to work, I found myself musing on monosyllabic[**] words. Tomorrow, I will be working at Queen Mary University with RT. I noted that "queen" has five letters but is only one syllable... whilst "Mary" is one letter shorter yet one syllable longer.

Thus, I pose the question to you, my dear friends: What is the longest monosyllabic word that you can think of? Two hundred points will be awarded to the person who can come up with the longest such word![***]

Whilst on the topic of points, I should congratulate theentwife! She scored the most votes in the poll to determine who had come up with the funniest title to this entry. Congratulations -- your two hundred points are winging their way to you right now!

Meanwhile, the game is on to find the longest monosyllabic word! Godspeed and good luck!

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[*] Or stated explicitly!

[**] It always amuses me that "monosyllabic" isn't.

[***] The Fine Print: Words must be in standard English, which shall be defined by the Oxford English Dictionary. On the hono(u)r system, contestants are trusted to come up with words on their own without the aid of Internet tools (such as a search engine).

Comments

[bunnypip.livejournal.com]

probably something like "strength" (8 letters, plenty of composit sounds)

[maellenkleth]

crikey, great minds think alike, ^_^

[anarchist-nomad.livejournal.com]

If this word wins, you both get credit, as it is the same answer posted to LJ at the very same minute!

Let the games continue...

[bunnypip.livejournal.com]

your rules look open to people looking up obsolete words on the internet.

[anarchist-nomad.livejournal.com]

Hurm. That's a point. All my contests are run on the honor code that people think up their answers on their own. There's no challenge in typing "longest one syllable word" into Google!

I can make it more explicit in the rules, though...

[mattp.livejournal.com]

I originally though of the variant "strengths" but I'm neither the first with this word stem nor a 9 letter contender.

[anarchist-nomad.livejournal.com]

Nine is currently the lead -- pending OED confirmation of "strengthed" and "schmaltzed" -- so it would put you in the running, except that simple_epiphany mentioned it (below) two minutes before you did!

Keep trying, my friend! I have quite a bit of faith that you can come up with something!