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?!

Wrong thread, maybe?

no, he refers to the did you know... part on the page :) Quite interesting research approach. Maybe its time to contest the longest left hand written sentence.

It's the second time tonight that I've failed to read something that's just under my nose. Maybe I should go to sleep (it's 4:27 AM here)...

BTW, OS X's dictionary (/usr/share/dict/web2 - Webster's Second International, 234,936 words) is more complete than Linux's (and doesn't contain plurals!) :)

aftercataract

devertebrated

gazetteerage

reasseverate

terracewards

tessaradecad

tesseradecade

Nice!

For the right hand, on Ubuntu:

grep '^[yuiophjklnm]\{9,\}$' /usr/share/dict/words

polyphony

Anything longer on OS X?

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