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IXL777
02-12-03, 10:24 AM
I have to start at the bowels of the dictionary with two:
DIARRHOEA..and CHINCHERINCHEE..a bulbous AFRICAN PLANT...

P.S don't say..Diamond!:D :m:

Neville
02-12-03, 10:39 AM
Why not?

IXL777
02-12-03, 01:24 PM
Originally posted by Neville
Why not?
maybe you could find onother pun!!:D

spuriousmonkey
02-13-03, 04:49 AM
i can never spell 'colleagues' correctly.

IXL777
02-13-03, 04:52 AM
Originally posted by spuriousmonkey
i can never spell 'colleagues' correctly.

Maybe you would like to be a colleague of mine when you become a doctor...:cool:
"What area of work are you into?

spuriousmonkey
02-13-03, 05:23 AM
developmental biology...

IXL777
02-13-03, 05:28 AM
Originally posted by spuriousmonkey
developmental biology...

I have just finished doing, Metaphysics, Ontology linked to alternative medicine..my findings are mind boggling!

spuriousmonkey
02-13-03, 05:31 AM
Originally posted by IXL777
I have just finished doing, Metaphysics, Ontology linked to alternative medicine..my findings are mind boggling!

my findings are marginal so far, but I managed to blow them up to magnificient proportions.

IXL777
02-13-03, 05:35 AM
Originally posted by spuriousmonkey
my findings are marginal so far, but I managed to blow them up to magnificient proportions.
I am sure you will get your PhD. no problem...it is hard trying to come up with something original....:cool:

RDT2
02-13-03, 11:03 AM
Originally posted by spuriousmonkey
i can never spell 'colleagues' correctly.

Eye halve a spelling chequer
it came with my pea sea
It plane lea marques four my revue
miss steaks eye kin knot sea
Eye strike a quay and type a word
and weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
it shores me strait a weigh
Ass soon ass a mist ache is maid
it nose bee four two long
And eye can put the air or rite
its rare lea ever wrung
Eye have ran this poem threw
I’m shore your pleas two no
Its let her perfect awl the weigh
my chequer tolled me sew.

Enjoy,

Cheers,

Ron.

Thor
02-13-03, 11:36 AM
I only learnt how to spell behaviour properly last week. I've never really used it so I didn't have the need to know it.

IXL777
02-13-03, 02:57 PM
Originally posted by RDT2
Eye halve a spelling chequer
it came with my pea sea
It plane lea marques four my revue
miss steaks eye kin knot sea
Eye strike a quay and type a word
and weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
it shores me strait a weigh
Ass soon ass a mist ache is maid
it nose bee four two long
And eye can put the air or rite
its rare lea ever wrung
Eye have ran this poem threw
I’m shore your pleas two no
Its let her perfect awl the weigh
my chequer tolled me sew.

Enjoy,

Cheers,

Ron.

Ron you are a superstar...it gives us all hope...is this what you call linear and holistic processing..thanx:cool: :D

Pollux V
02-13-03, 03:15 PM
behaviour

Evidence of British English and American English diverging. It's spelled behavior, here, msword thinks so, anyway. I also noticed that you british folk spell connection connexion. I think that's pretty cool:cool:

Thor
02-13-03, 03:47 PM
Actually we spell connection, connection. Don't know where you got that word from

An MSWord f*cking sucks so meh!! :p

RDT2
02-14-03, 08:44 AM
Originally posted by Thor
Actually we spell connection, connection. Don't know where you got that word from

An MSWord f*cking sucks so meh!! :p

Both forms are allowed but 'connexion' is less common nowadays. I sometimes use it - also 'reflexion'.

Cheers,

Ron.

moonman
02-14-03, 04:33 PM
I am disslexyic so I can't realy spell anything correctly ever.

By the way is antidisestablishmenterianism a word?

EvilPoet
02-14-03, 11:23 PM
Yes it is a word - a very long word. ;)

Here is what it means:

"Antidisestablishmentarianism is a political philosophy that
is opposed to the separation of church and state. The term
originated in the context of the nineteenth century Church
of England; antidisestablismentarians were opposed to
proposals to remove its status as the state church of
England." -Wikipedia (http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antidisestablishmentarianism)

IXL777
02-15-03, 04:03 AM
Originally posted by EvilPoet
Yes it is a word - a very long word. ;)

Here is what it means:

"Antidisestablishmentarianism is a political philosophy that
is opposed to the separation of church and state. The term
originated in the context of the nineteenth century Church
of England; antidisestablismentarians were opposed to
proposals to remove its status as the state church of
England." -Wikipedia (http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antidisestablishmentarianism)

Thanks Poet, I remember the word in the 80's...."Can anyone spell that long word ..Welsh train station?:cool:

New Life
02-15-03, 11:40 AM
Originally posted by Thor
I only learnt how to spell behaviour properly last week. I've never really used it so I didn't have the need to know it.

Canadians spell behaviour with a 'u' as well.....i think its just the americans!

RDT2
02-15-03, 11:52 AM
Originally posted by IXL777
Thanks Poet, I remember the word in the 80's...."Can anyone spell that long word ..Welsh train station?:cool:

The longest word that I (actually don't) know is for a disease contracted by coal miners. But then modern medicine and chemistry can concoct some very long composite words.

Cheers,

Ron.

Tristan
02-15-03, 12:13 PM
Photophosphorylation

Uses the radiant energy of the sun to drive the synthesis of ATP. This is a process seen only in cells capable of photosynthesis. Light energy activates chlorophyll causing it to transfer an electron to an electron transport chain and, in the process, produce ATP from ADP and inorganic phosphate.


Later
T

IXL777
02-15-03, 06:32 PM
Originally posted by Tristan
Photophosphorylation

Uses the radiant energy of the sun to drive the synthesis of ATP. This is a process seen only in cells capable of photosynthesis. Light energy activates chlorophyll causing it to transfer an electron to an electron transport chain and, in the process, produce ATP from ADP and inorganic phosphate.


Later
T
Good one Tristan...must remember it:D :cool:

0neiros
02-15-03, 07:15 PM
ses·qui·pe·da·lian [ sèskwip dáylee n ] or ses·quip·e·dal [ sèskwi pédd’l ]
adjective

1. using long words: characterized by the use of very long words


2. long: relating to or being a long word


noun (plural ses·qui·pe·da·lians) (plural ses·quip·e·dals)

long word: a word with many letters or syllables ( literary )


[Early 17th century. From Latin sesquipedalis measuring one and one-half feet, from the stem ped- foot.]


ses·qui·pe·da·lian·ism noun

IXL777
02-16-03, 05:55 AM
ses·qui·pe·da·lian [ sèskwip dáylee n ] or ses·quip·e·dal [ sèskwi pédd’l ]
adjective

1. using long words: characterized by the use of very long words


yes that would be hard to spell...
there is a train station in wales..very long word , does anybody know what it is!?:cool: