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dicksbro
02-01-2013, 05:09 AM
Starting with a 1-letter word ... I'll enter the word:

A

and then the number of letters the next entry has to be:

2.

The second person enters a two letter word, like:

IT and then a 3 for the next person telling them how many letters their word should contain. When no more words can be thought of / entered ... the person enters "I give up!" and starts over again with a one-letter word.

Might be fun ... who knows.

Okay, consider the one and two letters words done ...

Next person needs a 3-letter word!

3

Pita
02-01-2013, 05:47 PM
Fun


Next is a 4 letter word. (Right?)

dicksbro
02-02-2013, 06:16 AM
Okay

Next: 5 letters

Pita
02-02-2013, 08:31 AM
Watch

Next: 6 letters

dicksbro
02-03-2013, 04:08 AM
Letter

Next: 7 letters

Pita
02-03-2013, 10:08 AM
Firming


Next: 8 letters

gigi
02-03-2013, 11:21 AM
Mischief

9 letters

Pita
02-03-2013, 06:42 PM
Copyright


10 letters next

dicksbro
02-04-2013, 04:36 AM
Breezeways

Eleven letters next. (Getting tougher :) )

Pita
02-04-2013, 11:11 AM
Downloading


12 letter word is next

dicksbro
02-05-2013, 02:34 AM
Announcement

Now, lucky 13 :)

Pita
02-05-2013, 10:51 AM
Circumstances

Next: 14 letters

dicksbro
02-06-2013, 02:46 AM
Administrators

15-letter word next

Pita
02-06-2013, 05:14 PM
Shortsightedness


16-letter word

dicksbro
02-07-2013, 03:16 AM
Absentmindedness

17 letters next

gekkogecko
02-07-2013, 12:59 PM
Triskaidekaphobia

18 letters now

Pita
02-07-2013, 01:46 PM
telecommunications


Next: 19 letter word

dicksbro
02-07-2013, 05:14 PM
Angiocardiographies

Next: 20 letter word

gekkogecko
02-09-2013, 10:07 AM
hydrotherapeutically

Up to a 21-letter word now.

dicksbro
02-10-2013, 05:38 AM
antiauthoritarianisms

Can you believe ... 22-letter word next.

gekkogecko
02-10-2013, 10:34 AM
electroencephalography

Try for a 23-letter word.

dicksbro
02-11-2013, 04:01 AM
Nonrepresentationalisms

Now we go for 24-letters.

gekkogecko
02-11-2013, 08:51 AM
dichlorodifluoromethanes

Up to 25-letters.

Pita
02-11-2013, 08:56 AM
immunoelectrophoretically


Next: 26 letter word

dicksbro
02-12-2013, 03:45 AM
Antidisestablishmentarisms

Is there a 27-letter word?

gekkogecko
02-12-2013, 12:14 PM
honorificabilitudini-tatibus was made famous (for some value of "famous") by Shakespeare.

28 letters, there's at least one in English.

dicksbro
02-13-2013, 04:22 AM
Antidisestablishmentarianism (At first I thought this was the same as the previous post I made, but, the "...ian..." near the end accounts for the three extra letters. Didn't realize there were the two words that were so close in spelling. :shrug:

29 letters anyone?

gekkogecko
02-13-2013, 10:40 AM
Floccinaucinihilipilification

I know there's a 45-letter word in English, but I don't know if there's at least one word each between where we are now (30 letters), and that.

So, anyway, yeah, 30 letters next.

Pita
02-13-2013, 08:04 PM
Sphenopalatineganglioneuralgia (means ice-cream headache or brain freeze)



Next: 31 letters

dicksbro
02-14-2013, 04:21 AM
dziewięćdziesięciokilkuletniemu – a form of "ninety-and-some years old one"

Whew! Next: 32 letters

Pita
02-14-2013, 10:36 AM
Nagsisipagsisinungasinungalingan


Next: 33 letters

gekkogecko
02-14-2013, 10:51 AM
Menneskerettighetsorganisasjonene

since we're apparently going to allow non-English words. Basically translates from the German as human-rights organizations.

34-letters next

dicksbro
02-15-2013, 05:02 AM
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

35-letter word now.

dicksbro
05-08-2018, 02:40 AM
hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia - means fear of long words. :)

36 letter word (any language)