Zenzizenzizenzic

not_a_bot_4sho

Waiting for an AI startup to create a phononym of this, in the same vein as Google did...

graypegg

> …it survives as a linguistic oddity: zenzizenzizenzic has more Zs than any other word in the OED. I am an absolutely garbage scrabble player, but I will be keeping this gem in my back pocket… probably a rare case to play it though haha

lbo462

That is actually pretty cool

AStrangeMorrow

Someone watched “The rest is Science” I imagine!

marceldegraaf

Ah, I see someone has listened to "The Rest is Science" recently. Great podcast with Michael Stevens (VSauce) and Hannah Fry (the mathematician) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9t-5lQ2mzuw

sublinear

> dating from a time when powers were written out in words rather than as superscript numbers ... he wrote that it "doeth represent the square of squares squaredly". This is a great example of why bad naming conventions are a "smell". It strongly implies that the solution does not yet fully understand the problem it's trying to solve.

momoraul

Just "zenzi" stacked three times. They really committed to the bit.

culi

Funny that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenzizenzic redirects to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_power I supposed the 16th power would then be Zenzizenzizenzizenzic and so forth.

Jblx2

I always wondered what the Spice Girls were singing about in that song.

gre

hemidemisemiquaver vibes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixty-fourth_note

jzer0cool

Unbelievable. Are you actually Stephen Fry is disguise?