Elizabeth's Landing Community Association

Longest typed words

Well, for the longest words typed with the right hand you state that stewardesses is the longest word... and lollipop for the right...

Left hand = AFTERCATARACTS (plural for a condition that sometimes follows cataract surgery), TESSERADECADES and TETRASTEARATES are the longest words which can be typed using only the fingers of the left hand. The first word appears in a Merriam-Webster medical dictionary; the second is in W2. Other such words (some of which are not in dictionaries) are ABSTRACTERS, ABSTRACTEST, AFTEREFFECT, AFTEREFFECTS, AFTERTASTES, AFTERWARDS, ASSEVERATED, ASSEVERATES, BEGGARWEEDS, CASEBEARERS, CRABGRASSES, DATABASES, DECEREBRATE, DECEREBRATED, DECEREBRATES, DESECRATERS, DESEGREGATE, DESEGREGATED, DESEGREGATES, DEVERTEBRATED, EFFERVESCED, EFFERVESCES, EXTRAVASATES, GAZETTEER, READDRESSED, READDRESSES, REAGGRAVATES, REASSEVERATE, RESEGREGATE, RESEGREGATED, RESEGREGATES, REVEGETATED, REVEGETATES, REVERBERATE, REVERBERATED, REVERBERATES, SASSAFRASES, STAGECRAFTS, STATECRAFTS, STAVESACRES, SWEATERDRESSES, SWEETBREADS, TERRACEWARDS, TRADECRAFTS, VERTEBRATES, WASTEWATERS, WATERCRAFTS, WATERCRESSES.

Right hand = HOKYPOKY, HOMONYMY, HOMOPHONY, HOMOPHYLY, HYPOLIMNION, HYPOPHYLL, HYPOPHYLLIUM, HYPOPHYLLUM, HYPOPYON, ILLINIUM, ILLUMINOPOLY, KINNIKINNIK, LUPULINUM, MILLIMHO, MILLIOHM, MIMINYPIMINY, MINIKINLY, MINIMILL, MONOHULL, MONOPHONY, MONOPOLY, NIPPONIUM, NONILLION, PHYLLOPHYLLIN, POLLINIUM, POLONIUM, POLYONOMY, POLYPHONIUM, POLYPHONY, UNHOLILY.

Granted some of theses words are used in higher education.


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Typewriter longest??? Wrong!

Typewritter is not the longest word typed with the top row of letteres on a QWERTY keyboard. A longer word is PROPRIETORY 11 letters other 10 letter words are: PEPPERROOT, PEPPERWORT, PERPETUITY, PEWTERWORT, PIROUETTER, PREREQUIRE, PRETORTURE, PROPRIETOR, REPERTOIRE, REPETITORY, TETTERWORT

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4,000 yr domestication

You say...
In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated

I say...Domesticated animals and plants are those species whose breeding and living conditions are under human control for the purposes of using them for food, as an aid to work, or as a pet.

Approximate Dates and Locations of first Domestication

Species Date Location
Dog 10,000 B.C. Middle East
Sheep 8,000 B.C. Middle East
Goat 8,000 B.C. Middle East
Pig 8,000 B.C. China
Cat 7,000 B.C. Egypt
Cow 6,000 B.C. Middle East
Horse 4,000 B.C. Ukraine
Donkey 4,000 B.C. Egypt
Water buffalo 4,000 B.C. China
Chicken 3,500 B.C. ?
Llama 3,500 B.C. Peru
Bactiran camel 2,500 B.C. Central Asia
Arabian camel 2,500 B.C. Arabia
Guinea pig 900 Peru
Rabbit 1500 Europe
Fox 1800s Europe
Mink 1800s Europe
Hamster 1930s United States

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Churchill born in ladies room

You state...
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies room.

I say... Claim: Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

Status: False.

Origins: The claim that British prime minister ''Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room at a dance'' has been circulating on Internet-based trivia lists for as long as we can remember. Given that Churchill was one of the most important figures of the 20th century ?— a long-lived statesman of international prominence whose career spanned two world wars and beyond ?— this would seem like a fairly easy item to verify, but once again things were deceptively less simple than they appeared at first blush.

The complete text can be reviewed here if you care to verify it!
http://www.snopes.com/history/world/churchill.asp

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