Deplorable Word word itself, and had vowed that none of them, nor their descendants, would seek to discover it. Jadis said she had "learned it in a secret place and paid a terrible price to learn it". The book does not say what that price was, or give further details on the Deplorable Word. Lewis does not explicitly link the Deplorable Word to any specific weapon of mass destruction, but he alludes to the power of humanity to destroy life. Writing in 1955 in the midst of the Cold War, Lewis has the lion Aslan say to the central characters from the
Longest word in Turkish root. Otherwise it alternates between -DIr (D=d or t, I=ı,i,u or ü) and -t depending on the preceding letter. Multiple usage of this suffix is rare, but there is no theoretical reason to put a limit to its use. The tongue twister ""Çekoslovakyalılaştıramadıklarımızdan mısınız"" is often said to be the longest word in Turkish, despite in written form appearing to be two separate words. This is because the question particle "mi" is by convention separated from the verb, despite being considered part of it. It means ""Are you one of those people whom we could not make to be Czechoslovakian?""