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Word: taumatawhakatangihangakoauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...issue, the Press section, you printed the name of a New Zealand village called: Taumatawhakatangihangakoauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu. Could you please tell us where the accent goes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 2, 1962 | 2/2/1962 | See Source »

...fattests, thinnests, highests, lowests, fastests and slowests-20,000 records in all. Its students can learn that the creature with the most sensitive sniffer is the male silkworm moth, which can detect a female two miles away; that the longest place name belongs to the New Zealand village of Taumatawhakatangihangakoauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu; and that Mrs. Beverly Nina Avery, a Los Angeles barmaid, holds the record for most spouses in a monogamous society, with 14 husbands, five of whom, she once alleged, broke her nose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Superlative Selection | 1/19/1962 | See Source »

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