For today's episode I will present the weirdest things that I have encountered concerning language. Let's start off.
1. The Estonian word for space explorer is kuuuurija.
2. In the city of Condom of France, it has a Bishop of Condom
3. In Jerusalem, there is a church called "Our Lady Of the Spasms"
4. Bangkok's full name is "Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Yuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Piman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit ." Fancy that, not even a mention of "Bangkok" in it.
5. There's a village in Canada called Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha! , together with the exclamation marks
6. One of the most outrageous place names in the world. This is the world's most stolen street sign.
You might want to read the local's reaction to this: http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2005/09/02/1125302734420.html
7. The world's shortest place name:
8. "Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia" means fear of long words. How ironic.
9. For good measure, here's the longest word in English, it contains 189,819 letters.It's found on an external page because I got too tired writing up to the 2000th character
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20061113221628AAxlNn5
10. The shortest word in the English language is "a".
That's about what I have for today.
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