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Eckler, Ross – 1996
From showing readers the longest words in common usage (22 letters--counterrevolutionaries, deinstitutionalization), to providing readers with a list of words in which all 5 vowels must appear in alphabetical order (abstemious, facetious), to discovering the name in an American phone book where the most letters of the alphabet are used without…
Descriptors: Educational Games, English, Letters (Alphabet), Linguistics
Direct linkGehenot, Daniel – Meta, 1975
This article discusses the definition, classification, etymology and history, formation and the use of acronyms, and provides a list of the most common acronyms currently in use. (Text is in French.) (CLK)
Descriptors: Abbreviations, Etymology, Language Usage, Letters (Alphabet)
Godkewitsch, Michael – Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1972
Results supported the hypothesis that bilinguals would make more errors in English than native speakers, and that English unilinguals would err more on German than on English pentagrams. (Author)
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Bilingualism, Comprehension, English
