Saturday, October 07, 2006

SUBDERMATOGLYPHIC means

of or pertaining to the layer of skin beneath the fingertips' - Of course it is !!!

Why on earth would I know this or even "google" it is quite simple in a strange sort of way, We bought Max some foam letters that stick to the bath, 26 in total no letter the same. Yep now it's coming together, Subdermatoglyphic is the longest such word. I have also discovered that the term for such a word is called a isogram.

This seventeen-letter isogram is actually attested in a dermatologists' journal, but it was placed there at the suggestion of a word-buff, who asked the doctor to use it in print in order to claim it as the longest isogram.

Where would we be without the internet hey.

Max is actually quite poorly at the moment and has a high temperature, quite sure it is down to his teeth and the doctor has said not to worry and to just call if the fever does not go by tomorrow or goes above 40.

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1 comment:

bint alshamsa said...

Thanks for giving the definition of this word. I saw it written as the longest word in the English language that doesn't have any repeating letters and I just had to know what it meant but it wasn't listed in the dictionary. Now I know!

By the way, your child's pictures are just adorable!