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The \ufffd *most succinct* word is the Fuegian (southern-most Argentina and Chile)
word "mamihlapinatapai" which means "looking at each other hoping that either will offer to do something which both parties desire but are unwilling to do"

The *longest acronym* is... [new line!]

NIIOMTPLABOPARMBETZHELBETRABSBOMONIMONKONOTDTEKHSTROMONT [!] (56
letters) from the "Concise [yeah, right] Dictionary of Soviet [had
to be, really :)] Terminology" meaning:

The laboratory for shuttering, reinforcement, concrete and ferroconcrete operations for composite-monolithic and monolithic constructions of the Department of the Technology of Building - assembly operations of the Scientific Research Institute of the Organization for building mechanization and technical aid of the Academy of Building and Architecture of the USSR. [

phew! Wouldn't surprise me if that sentence held the "largest 'Gunning Fog Index' score" record!]
<Just worked this out to be 28. As a guide, the "Daily Mail"=9.5, The
"Times"=18 and The "Guardian"=23 (all approx. values).>

And finally, the *longest sentence* ever to get past the editor of a major
newspaper is one of 1,379 [!] words (counting common hyphenated words as one)
in an article written by Albert Sukoff of Berkeley, California, in the "This
World" section of the "San Francisco Chronicle" of 16 June, 1985.
[beat that Pterry!.... well, on second thoughts, don't. :)]

[You can all wake up now :)]

Dave.

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