h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

regarding taylor Swift:

I know I've opened a .

Some music seems to be very popular in some regions, and not popular in others. I'm fine with that. I'd just like to have some inkling of what the lyrics are, if there are lyrics.

Pop singers are not the only ones who mumble or worse. Opera singers are sometimes guilty of poor enunciation. I loved Dame Joan Sutherland's voice, but you could not figure out what she was singing . There's an expression for what opera singers sound like when singing in English: Opera singers' English.

Pavarotti's pronunciation was pretty good, but his English was heavily accented .

About long words: In 1981, the official longest word in the English language was in our 8th grade spelling book and our spelling test. The word was pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.

a lad tried to get entered in the Guinness book of recordsas having the longest name - it was Miles Long

You're right, Evangeline. I thought I had mentioned it in an earlier post, but it seems I forgot . The shorter word for that condition is silicosis.

Who are you calling silly cousins?

Sorry, the batteries in my hearing aid must be running low

You suffer from audiological insufficiency?

Only when I misread your posts

Seriously though, I had my hearing checked a couple of years ago and was told it was perfect. Not only for a person my age but in general. That was good to hear (no pun intended) because I couldn't live without music, I listen to music whenever I can.

My eyesight is another story but I get by as long as I have my glasses

By the time my parents were my age (71), they both had serious hearing loss, though their problems were caused by different things.

Mostly, if I don't hear something, it;'s because I'm not trying very hard to hear it.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/40782513

I've used sesquipedalian before, but I thought it meant something else .

I doubt there was any one around knowing what it means

I'm in this category what's your name ?
Oh! Hard questions first eh!