THE SPELLING FEVER.

Dunstan Times, Issue 704, 15 October 1875, Page 4

THE SPELLING FEVER.

The Grey Paver Argus on this all engrossing topic says : —ln anticipation of this epidemic visiting Greymouth, we offer a few exemplary words, and comments by contemporaries or correspondents in localities where it has already exhibited itself ; The first word offered is thought to be the longest in the English language used often in old plays, and placed in the mouth of Costard the clown in •“Love’s Labour Lost,” act V., scene 1. “ Honorificabilitudinitatibus.” The next in “ Pilgrims on the Rhine,” by Bulwor, “ Amoronthologosphorus.” The next from Rabelais, “ Antipericntta metadanaparbengedamphie—Rib • rati onestooraecantiu m. ” The next the name of an officer now in Madrid, Don Juan JNeporauceno de Bnrionagonatorecagageazoecha. The next is a town in the Isle of Mull, “ Drimtaidhvrickhillichattan.” The next, “ duvchschwindsuehttoedlungagegenverien.” “Nitrophenylenediamine ’’and “Polyphrasticonti nomimegalondation,” are two words that recently appeared in the London Times and Standard. “ Sankashtachatusthivratodapana.” “ Swapanchakesharimabamantrastorn.’, The names of two productions of Sancrit literature. “Lepadotemachoselachogalcokranioleiplianodriinupotrimraatokichiepiko s - suphophatoperisterrlsktruonoptegke p - iilopeloilagoossiralobaghctiuganopterugon.” This last sentence is the longest in •any language. It may be found in the “ Ekkleslasousai ” of Aristophanes, a very excellent comedy, and placed in the mouth of one of the actors. It consists of IG9 letters, and makes 77 syllables.