Some Obscurish facts
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400 B.C. In his comedy The Ecclesiazusae, Aristophanes introduced a new word, which remains to this date the longest ever penned in the history of literature-Lopadotemachoselachogaleokranip sanodrimhypotrimmatosilphioparaomelitokatake chymenokich lepikossyphop hattoperisterale ktryonoptekephalliokigklope leiolagoiosiraiobaphetraganopterygon. One hundred seventy letters long in Aristophanes' Greek, 182 letters in its English transliteration, the word means a fricassee of 17 sweet and sour ingredients including mullet, honey, brains, pickles, vegetable marrow, vinegar, and the Greek drink ouzo
400 B.C. In his comedy The Ecclesiazusae, Aristophanes introduced a new word, which remains to this date the longest ever penned in the history of literature-Lopadotemachoselachogaleokranip sanodrimhypotrimmatosilphioparaomelitokatake chymenokich lepikossyphop hattoperisterale ktryonoptekephalliokigklope leiolagoiosiraiobaphetraganopterygon. One hundred seventy letters long in Aristophanes' Greek, 182 letters in its English transliteration, the word means a fricassee of 17 sweet and sour ingredients including mullet, honey, brains, pickles, vegetable marrow, vinegar, and the Greek drink ouzo