2 Puzzles

[amorous]

Hi guys,

May be these are simple puzzles for experts out there...try 'em

1. Which is the longest word in English??
2. What is the difference between a soldier and a lady?

Note: The answers are based on the concept -- "wordplay"

-VJ

 

[Lightning]

[COLOR=white]
1.  SMILES
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Still working on # 2

 

[AnotherHiggins]

[white]1) Shingle - The longest single-word anagram made from the letters in the word "English"

I'm still mulling over number 2[/white]

 

[shetlandbob]

[white]
1. shingle
2. rosie
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[amorous]

Any more answers guys...

let me clarify my second question...

the answer for the second question is not a single word but a phrase made up with the concept of "fun with words"

-VJ

-VJ

 

[lbass]

#1:

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shingle
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But still unclear on #2--is it a joke that really is unrelated to the words "soldier" and "lady"?

-LB

 

[cabbey77]

[white]1) False[/white]

2)???

 

[amorous]

In my first question...i never meant to ask for longest anagram...

Cheers Lightning, you got the answer for the first question...


As far as second question is concerned, i think i need to repost it after framing the question properly...

-VJ

 

[shetlandbob]

I'm afraid I dont understand the answer to 1

 

[AnotherHiggins]

I hate to seem dense, but could someone explain the answer to number 1? The answer that I gave (along with shetlandbob and lbass) makes sense to me, but I don't get [COLOR=white white]smiles[/color].

John

 

[amorous]

[white]if the first letter and last letter in your word are a "mile" apart ...then why is it not the longest word [bigsmile]

sMILEs[/white]

i hope you guys understood the answer for question 1

-VJ

 

[SF0751]

Explanation for answer #1:

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It's the longest English word "because there is a MILE between the first and last letter".  (S[b]MILE[/b]S)
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Susan
"People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character."
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

 

[Lightning]

Thanks amorous - it's an oldy but a goody!

I've heard your second one before too, but I can't remember the answer. Still looking!

L

 

[jdunderhill]

2. Coat Of Arms

Jamie

 

[GwydionM]

By the rule Lightning suggests,

 [white]Light-year is a lot longer, as is aeon, it does not say space rather than time.
There is also parsec, though you could call that a techincal term.
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A view from the UK

 

[GwydionM]

For (2)

 [white]The private's parts
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(Please do not read if easily offended.)

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A view from the UK

 

[AnotherHiggins]

[white]Yeah, I still kind of have a problem with number 1 as well.  I see where you're comming from with "sMILEs", but I don't think you can say that [COLOR=white white]shingle[/color] is wrong.  the question was, "Which is the longest word in English."  [b]Not[/b] "...in the English language."  I thought [u]that[/u] was the trick in the trick question.  

Of course, we could always be literal about it.  Growing up, I always heard that the longest "real" word in English was Antidisestablishmentarianism.  According to this [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_word_in_English][white]article[/white][/url], floccinaucinihilipilification might take the lead.
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So, any clues for number 2?

 

[ESquared]

The longest word I know of is

[white]pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis[/white]

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A sacrifice is harder when no one knows you've made it.

 

[AnotherHiggins]

[white]Generaly medical and technical terms have been excluded from "competition".  Expecially fake medical terms. ;-)  The following is from dictionary.com: 

[center]It is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as "a factitious word alleged to mean 'a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust' but occurring chiefly as an instance of a very long word."[/center]

We could always go with proper nouns, in which case supercalifragilisticexpialidocious would be right up there.  But alas, it is a proper noun - the name of a song.[/white]

 

[ESquared]

anotherhiggins,

The fact that it is defined in a dictionary means it abides by the general rules of the WordPlay forum!

Valid Words[link] - When answering puzzles, or if challenged on your answer to a puzzle, please be prepared to support your answer with a reference to an online dictionary. When the word in question is submitted, there must display a matching dictionary or thesaurus entry. The entry need not be the exact word entered, but must logically be the root or equivalent of the word.

m-w.com lists the word as being part of its unabridged content.

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A sacrifice is harder when no one knows you've made it.