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Can you spell "ornicopytheobibliopsychocrystarroscioaero-genethliometeoroaustrohieroa
RANDOLPH TWP. - Third grader Aaron Zweig can spell "ornicopytheobibliopsychocrystarroscioaero-genethliometeoroaustrohieroanthropoichthyopyroside roch-pnomyoalectryoophiobotanopegobydrorhab-docrithoaleuroalphitohalomolybdoclerobeloax-inocoscinodactyliogeolithopessopsephocatop-trotephraoneirochiroonychodactyloarithstichooxogel oscogastro-gyrocerobletonooenosapulinaniac."
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Zweig, 9, spelled the word before his class last month after he was given a challenge by his teacher. The teacher said she was surprised, to say the least, that Zweig was able to recite the entire 310 letters.
Zweig is a student at Fernbrook Elementary School and last year, his spelling impressed his second grade teacher, Ruth Kalata. So this year, Kalata posed the challenge of the giant word.
“I told him he should come back to me when he had learned the word, thinking he never would,” Kalata said on Nov. 11. “But two weeks later he was back and spelled it in front of my class. It was really a joke to challenge him, but he thrives on challenges like that.”
Kalata said that last year, the youth learned to spell two, extremely long words, antidisestablishmentarianism and supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.
But the two words with 34 and 28 letters, respectively, were puny compared with the latest challenge.
Lengthy Definition
According to a book of facts, the 310-letter word was used by medieval scribes to refer to someone who practices divination or forecasting by means of phenomena, interpretation of acts, or other manifestations related to animate or inanimate objects and appearances such as various animal behaviors, dreams, palmistry, wands, ring suspension and a number of other methods.
Zweig said he first learned to spell the long word and now is learning its meaning.
Kalata discovered the 310-letter word in a book of facts by Russell Ash, called “The Top 10 of Everything.”
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