Roget’s Thesaurus

Why is “abbreviation” such a long word….?

At the beginning of To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee quotes Charles Lamb: “Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.”

“My life has a superb cast, but I cannot figure out the plot.”   Ashleigh Brilliant  (1933 -)

“Almost” is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.