●特殊記号表(ご質問がありましたので、主なものを掲載します)

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&    and
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#    《数字の前に付けて》 number; 《数字の後につけ》 pound: #7 thread 7 番糸 / 30# 30 ポンド
%    percent; per hundred; order of
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‡   double dagger 二重剣標
§   section or numbered clause
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¶   paragraph
°   degree 《温度・角度・方位》; 30° (=thirty degrees)
'    minute 《時間・角度・方位》; foot 《尺度》: 35' (=thirty‐five minutes [feet])
"    second 《時間・角度・方位》; inch 《尺度》: 50" (=fifty seconds; =fifty inches)

 

●世界で(?)一番長い単語

珪性肺塵症の複数形  pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

pneumono 肺
ultra   超
micro  微
scopic  視
silico  珪素(シリコン)
volcano 火山
coniosis  症

The word
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (also spelled -koniosis) is defined as "a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica (sandlike) dust, mostly found in volcanoes". It was originally coined simply to serve as the longest English word, but has been used in several sources as an approximation of its originally intended definition. The name generally used to describe this condition is pneumoconiosis, which is much shorter.

The plural of this word, pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, is equally long. ウイキペディアより

●忘れな草(なるほど忘れにくい)

忘れな草 forget-me-not (語感が好きです)
鳳仙花  touch-me-not  (きれいです)
三色スミレ kiss-me-quick (!!!)
クラゲ jellyfish (ゼリー状のさかな)
かっぱ rivermonster (そのまんま)
たつのおとしご seahorse (海の馬、セイウチもこれですがwalrus が一般的)

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