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Palindromes là những từ mà nếu ta đảo ngược thứ tự chữ cái thì ra chính từ đó.
TATTARRATTAT is the longest palindrome in the OED2, which calls it a nonce word. The OED2 shows a single use in 1922 by James Joyce in Ulysses: "I knew his tattarrattat at the door."
KINNIKINNIK is the longest palindrome in W3. The OED2 shows these variant spellings: kinnikinnic, kinnikinnik, killegenico, kanickanick, kanikanik, killickinnick, kin(n)ikin(n)ick, -kineck, -kennic, kinnakinnec. Audubon L. Bakewell IV reports the word is usually spelled kinnikinnick. The OED2 defines the term as "a mixture used by North American Indians as a substitute for tobacco, or for mixing with it..." or "any of the various plants used for this, as the Silky Cornel, Cornus sericea, Red-osier Dogwood, Cornus stolonifera, and esp. Bearberry, Arctostaphylos Uva-ursi...." The word is derived from an Algonquin word meaning "mixture."
DETARTRATED is listed by Guinness, where it is described as "a contrived chemical term." However, the word appears in several Internet pages on Concord grape juice and even once or twice on apple juice, including the page http://www.nysaes.cornell.edu/hort/faculty/pool/herbbarber/herbgage3. htm which has this paragraph:
Concord contains potassium salts commonly called tartrates that won''t filter or centrifuge out. Must be allowed to settle out by gravity - minimum of 6 weeks, before it''s detartrated and ready to use. Otherwise will have sediment in the bottom of the bottle of juice and the jelly will be a little grainy.
Detartrated is said to have been coined by Dmitri Borgmann.
DETANNATED appears in a work on plant extracts published in 1892. It shows two detannated concoctions, detannated elixir of calisaya bark and detannated elixir of cinchona. The text can be found at http://chili.rt66.com/hrbmoore/ManualsOther/ElixForm.txt According to the Palindromicon, "detannated tincture of cinchona" appears in the 8th revision of the Pharmacopoeia of the U. S.
The longest palindromic taxons are AFGOIOGFA (a genus of hymenopterans), AIDEMEDIA (a genus of Hawaiian finch), and ALLENELLA (a species name for a moth, Oecophoridae Bibarrambla allenella as well as a type of mollusk and a hymenopteran [Susan Thorpe, Charles Turner].
The longest palindromic genus-species combination is ORIZABUS SUBAZIRO (a species of scarab beetle). Other palindromic genus-species combinations are AHA HA (a sphecid) and XELA ALEX (a species of syrphid fly).
Palindromic place names include ANAHANAHANA (Madagascar), KANAKANAK (Alaska), KINIKINIK (Alberta), NEUQUEN (a river, province, and city in Argentina), and WASSAMASSAW Road (near Summerville, South Carolina). The northernmost palindrome is QAANAAQ (the administrative capital of Northern Greenland). A web page which attempts to show all palindromic place names is at http://www.nwlink.com/~dtilque/palplaces/index.html.
GLENELG is one of the most common palindromic geographic names worldwide. The original is a village in Scotland. There''s also a town in Maryland, a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia, a village in Nova Scotia, and a township in Ontario. Because there was a Lord Glenelg (the only one with that name) who was the British Colonial Secretary in the 1830s, the name is on various other features, such as streets and rivers, in Australia and New Zealand. At Glenelg High School in Maryland, the yearbook is the Palindrome.
AKASAKA is a district in Chuo, Tokyo [Joseph Hernandez].
The Finnish word SAIPPUAKIVIKAUPPIAS (a soapstone seller) is the longest known palindrome in any language according to the Guinness Book of World Records. It is claimed that two other Finnish palindromes are SAIPPUAKUPPINIPPUKAUPPIAS (soap cup trader) and SOLUTOMAATTIMITTAAMOTULOS (the result from a measurement laboratory for tomatoes) although technically the latter is a compound of four words. The Swedish word PORTUGALRALLARLAGUTROP (22 letters) is listed in Guinness, Swedish 1989 e***ion, but is not found in dictionaries.
According to Maarten van Muijen, the longest palindrome in Dutch is PARTERRESERRETRAP, which is translated "stairs from the main floor to a glass-covered terrace." A reader of this page provided a longer Dutch palindrome, KOORTSMEETSYSTEEMSTROOK, which she translates as "fever measure system strip." Hans Timp says both of these words, and another he provided, NEPPARTERRETRAPPEN, are made for palindroming and are not found in dictionaries. He says the longest real Dutch word which is a palindrome is MEETSYSTEEM, meaning "measuring system."
Miroslav Sedivy writes, "There is one excellent Czech (also Slovak) palindrome unique by its usage: TAHAT (even vertically symmetrical). It means ''pull'' in sense of pulling a door to open it. So if you see it on a transparent sticker on a glass door (and I''ve seen many such doors in Czechoslovakia), it''s interesting to see people pulling doors from both sides..."
Common everyday English palindromes (including a few very common abbreviations) are A, AHA, BB, BIB, BOB, BOOB, BUB, CIVIC, DAD, DEED, DEIFIED, DENNED, DEWED, DID, DUD, DVD, EKE, ERE, EVE, EWE, EYE, GAG, GIG, HAH, HUH, HUH-UH, I, KAYAK, KOOK, LEVEL, MA?TAM, MADAM, MOM, MUM, NOON, NUN, PAP, PCP, PEEP, PEP, PIP, POOP, POP, PULL-UP, PUP, PUT-UP, RACECAR, RADAR, REDDER, REFER, REPAPER, REVIVER, ROTATOR, ROTOR, SAGAS, SEES, ***ES, SHAHS, SIS, SOLOS, SOS, STATS, TAT, TENET, TIT, TNT, TOT, TOOT, TUT, TUT-TUT, WOW, and ZZZ.
Common personal names include ADA, ANNA, ASA, AVA, BOB, CEC (for Cecil), ELLE, EVE, HANNAH, LIL, NAN, OTTO, VIV, and VYV.
REDIVIDER is the name of a Canadian band. The word does not appear in the OED2 and an Internet search in March 2000 failed to find a single use of the word, except for its appearance in lists of palindromes or as the name of the band.
RELEVELER is the name of a rock band. However, the word is not found in the OED2 and does not appear to exist on the Internet except as the name of the rock band or as an example of a palindrome.
DELEVELED is used in fantasy role playing games to indicate that a character has lost a level. Several usages with this meaning can be found on the Internet.

I just know that the hardest word to understand that''s ''''ilunga'''' and its meaning in VNese ''s :''tôi có thể tha thứ cho một người lần thứ nhất ,lần thứ hai nhưng không bao giờ có lần thứ ba''-maybe that

Trích từ bản tin BBC:
The world''s most difficult word to translate has been identified as "ilunga" from the Tshiluba language spoken in south-eastern DR Congo.
It came top of a list drawn up in consultation with 1,000 linguists.
Ilunga means "a person who is ready to forgive any abuse for the first time, to tolerate it a second time, but never a third time".
It seems straightforward enough, but the 1,000 language experts identified it as the hardest word to translate.

jacklin
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Ai ma đọc xong mấy câu này phát âm giỏi phải biết:
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked.If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,Where''''s the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?

How can a clam cram in a clean cream can?

Seventy seven benevolent elephants
When you write copy you have the right to copyright the copy you write. ...
What a terrible tongue twister

Các bạn thử làm cái quiz này xem:
1. In the early part of this century, what was a geek?
a. Someone born with a hunchback
b. Someone who bites the heads off chickens and snakes in a carnival sideshow
c. Someone who marries a first cousin, but abstains from having children
d. A mentally challenged individual
e. A professor of the humanities

2. What is Podunk?
a. A small, isolated, trivial town
b. A flat, disk-shaped cake fried in fat and often served at county fairs
c. An ignorant, immoral, but strong individual
d. A marsupial indigenous to New Zealand

3. Eli was prone to endless hours of woolgathering, and his grades reflected it. What is woolgathering?
a. Thumb twiddling
b. Doodling
c. Daydreaming
d. Gazing out the window
e. Sleeping

4. Justine was tired of dating this kind of man-the charming, good looking sort who eventually reveals himself to be a cloddish, unfeeling lothario. What is a lothario?
a. Someone who is concerned primarily with career and money.
b. A generally stupid person.
c. Someone whose primary aim is to seduce women.
d. Someone who has a very low emotional intelligence.

5. What is zeitgeist?
a. The fashion trends of a decade
b. The overall economic outlook of a country
c. The political bent of a nation.
d. The overall cultural, moral, and intellectual climate of an era

6. Who would yell, "paint a bow wow red" and what is s/he referring to?
a. Waiter/Waitress asking the cook to prepare a hotdog with ketchup
b. Fireman yelling coworkers to unleash the hoses on a burning building.
c. Veterinarian asking the assistant to anesthetize an animal on the operating table.
d. Jazz musician telling his band to improvise.

7. In Germany, if townspeople called you Burgermeister, who are you? a. The local professor
b. The mayor
c. The village idiot
d. The town baker
e. The town doctor

8. What is a pismire?
a. A pungent drink of brine, garlic, and honey for curing colds
b. An ant
c. An old woman with a fiery temper
d. An eccentric person
e. A small handbag made of sequins

9. What is a parasang?
a. A lightweight umbrella used as a sunshade
b. A small monkey that lives in the Amazon jungle
c. An ancient unit of distance
d. A loose garment worn by women of the Pacific Islands

10. What color is chartreuse?
a. Brilliant yellow green
b. Vivid reddish purple
c. Earthy orange
d. Dark grayish blue

Oh well, this is tough, I have never heard most of these words before but I''ll give it a try anyway, come and join us
1.  In the early part of this century, what was a geek? d. A mentally challenged individual 
2.  What is Podunk?   a.  A small, isolated, trivial town
3.  Eli was prone to endless hours of woolgathering, and his grades reflected it. What is woolgathering?  c. Daydreaming Well, one of the very few words I know here    4.  Justine was tired of dating this kind of man-the charming, good looking sort who eventually reveals himself to be a cloddish, unfeeling lothario. What is a lothario?   c. Someone whose primary aim is to seduce women.  5  What is zeitgeist?  d. The overall cultural, moral, and intellectual climate of an era
I gotta get back to my work now, the rest are for left for you, EC members

Hi guys,
Seems like the topic is getting more interesting.
I''m not sure whether anyone notice the word " ****"...
Yes, i mean "****"
Check this out to see for yourself what I mean. I think is quite weird but interesting as......
http://fun.more.jcisio.com/flash/english_-_****.swf.htm

Hey, do you know the word "antidisestablishmentarianism"?
It''s very long, I think. I saw it in the study notes of Study English-IELTS preparation (on ABC AsiaPacific channel). But what I want to know is: what is the meaning of this word?