Proper Names
Some nine-letter proper names remain monosyllabic when adding a tenth letter and apostrophe to form the possessive:
- Laugharne's /ˈlɑrnz/
- Scoughall's /ˈskoʊlz/
It is productive in English to convert a (proper) noun into an eponymous verb or adjective:
- A 2007–08 promotion in France used the slogan "Do you Schweppes?", implying a past tense Schweppesed (11 letters) for the putative verb.
- Schwartzed (10 letters) has been used to mean "(re)designed in the style of Martha Schwartz"
- Schwartzed has also been used to mean "crossed swords with Justice Alan R. Schwartz"
- Schmertzed (10 letters) has been used to mean "received undue largesse from New York City through the intervention of negotiator Eric Schmertz"
Read more about this topic: List Of The Longest English Words With One Syllable
Famous quotes containing the words proper and/or names:
“The reputation of generosity is to be purchased pretty cheap; it does not depend so much upon a man’s general expense, as it does upon his giving handsomely where it is proper to give at all. A man, for instance, who should give a servant four shillings, would pass for covetous, while he who gave him a crown, would be reckoned generous; so that the difference of those two opposite characters, turns upon one shilling.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!”
—William Hazlitt (1778–1830)