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LANGUAGE SHAKE’N’BAKE: LOVE’S LABORS LOST ACT V SCENE 1"I MARVEL THY MASTER HATH NOT EATEN THEE FOR A WORD; FOR TH0U ART NOT SO LONG BY THE HEAD AS HONORIFICABILITUDINITATIBUS THOU ART EASIER SWALLOWED THAN A FLAP DRAGON." The highlighted word is the longest (27 letters) in Shakespeare. The descendants of Francis Bacon believe it to be a Latin cipher containing the declaration: I LUDI, TUITI AIBI, FR. BACONO NATI
(THESE PLAYS ENTRUSTED TO THEMSELVES, PROCEED FROM FR. BACON)
The word is the only world in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when its last four letters are removed. "Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz" is the shortest English sentence to include all the letters of the alphabet. The phrases, "ma is as selfless as I am." and Redrum Sir, is Murder." and again, are palindromes, sentences that read the same backwards and forwards. The words is an alucardrum, a phrase that reads the same way when held upside down in front of a mirror. It is not related to the common conundrum but is brother to the palindrome and takes its name from Bram Stoker's Dracula, (alucarD spelled backwards).
A wag once remarked, facetiously, that abstemious was one of only two words in the English language that contained the vowels a e i o u in their proper order.
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