Enough is enough!

[BJCooperIT]

I receive a daily "Word of the Day" email from the Merriam Webster web site. Today's word is:

Hemidemisemiquaver \hem-ih-dem-ih-SEM-ih-kway-ver\ noun

a musical note with the time value of 1/64 of a whole note : sixty-fourth note

Semiquaver, I understand. Demisemiquaver, maybe. But hemidemisemiquaver is prefix overkill!

Can you think of any other examples?

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[thekl0wn]

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

This may be a language difference, but why the need for four "L"s in a row? Wouldn't two suffice?

 

[flapeyre]

Looking at the website, apparently the 4 Ls are legitimate:

DROBWLL - This comes from the word "trobwll" which is the Welsh for "whirlpool".

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LLANTYSILIO - This comes from the words "llan" meaning "parish" and St. Tysilio.

So, that's how you end up with Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch (Saint Mary's Church in the hollow of the white hazel near a rapid whirlpool and the Church of St. Tysilio of the red cave)

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