I happened to come across this excellent Paul Dickson-like compilation from Jeff Miller, a teacher at Gulf High School in New Port Richey, Florida.
I’m also reminded of Tim Krabbé’s chess records page.
I happened to come across this excellent Paul Dickson-like compilation from Jeff Miller, a teacher at Gulf High School in New Port Richey, Florida.
I’m also reminded of Tim Krabbé’s chess records page.
This is fantastic. So much to enjoy here. Thank you for the link!
What a treasure trove of time-wasting trivia (“TTTT” or 4T)!
My favorite so far:
Check out the Joy of Lex by Gyles Brandreth
Not entirely related to chess, but Krabbe is the author of a beautiful and brilliant autobiographical novella about an amateur bicycle race in southern France, called The Rider. Strong recommend; you’ll read it in an hour or two.
PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS:
The longest word in the English language is geologically related!
When I was a kid, the longest word in the English language was purported to be antidisestablishmentarianism. (28? letters)
ha, that’s funny, I also remember that word being bumped about a lot.
Entertaining…
I find the the unambiguous construction of the genuine german word AASVOGEL in this collection rather beautiful, not ugly! (side: many german words have this property)
Aas = carcass
Vogel = bird
=> Aasvogel = vulture, scavenging bird
On the other side, carcass with its meaning and associations is everything else but beautiful.
Ugly associations and beautiful word :)
it is hard to reason about beauty