全世界最長的英文生字是什麼?

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因為 s - s 之間相差一里咁長~~

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the longest English word of one syllable is the ten-letter scraunched, appearing in a 1620 translation of Cervantes' Don Quixote. It is a largely obsolete form of scrunched or crunched.

The eleven-letter word broughammed (created by analogy with bussed, biked, carted etc.), while readily pronounceable as one syllable in all dialects ("broomed"), is yet to appear in a print dictionary. See: "ough" words.

The 10-letter word "squirreled" is arguably monosyllabic.

There are a number of nine-letter words of a single syllable. Unsurprisingly, most of these long words contain one or more digraphs (e.g., rr or ai) and the occasional trigraph (e.g., tch). That is, multiple letters are used to represent a single sound. Additionally, neither the -ed preterite past tense ending for verbs, nor the -s plural ending for nouns increases the syllable count for words, so it is unsurprising that the longest words would use these endings.

Note, however, that in early Modern English, the -ed ending was frequently pronounced with a /ə/ (schwa) or /ɪ/ or /ɛ/, resulting in another syllable. Even today, the e is pronounced as a schwa in some dialects, resulting in an increased syllable count.

Aside from the -ed pronunciation issue, scraunched's claim is further weakened by the fact that English spelling was largely unstandardized throughout the early Modern English period until the advent of modern dictionaries. 1620 is well within the early Modern English period.

List of nine-letter English words of a single syllable:

broughams
craunched
quarreled
schlepped
scratched
scraughed
screeched
scrinched
scritched
scrooched
scrounged
scrunched
sprainged
spreathed
squelched
straights
strengths
stretched
throughed
thrutched
Note that strengths manages to have only one vowel letter. It is also one of the most complex syllables in English, its consonants and vowels being distributed as CCCVCCCC (/strɛŋkθs/, although it can be pronounced /strɛŋθs/).

Finally, one can consider the use of an apostrophe as an extension to the word length. Under this assumption, nouns using the plural -s can be modified to use the singular possessive case ending -'s or the plural possessive -s', resulting in a marginally longer word. However, in some dialects, this adds a second syllable and disqualifies the word.

List of nine-letter English words, plus apostrophe, of a single syllable:

brougham' s and broughams'
straight' s and straights'
strength' s and strengths'