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 Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2006 3:11 pm
The word Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is defined as "a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust, mostly found in volcanos". 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.
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Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2006 3:43 pm
hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia
the fear of long words
thats 1 thing thats scarier to know you have than to have rofl
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Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 1:33 am
spike109123 The word Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is defined as "a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust, mostly found in volcanos". 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. Wow! eek thats a really long word!
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Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 6:03 pm
dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane is long too. it's really hard to say...
(its a pesticide, by the way. better known as DDT)
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Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 11:07 pm
Wow, I amaze that a word like that does exist. Where did you read that on question
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Posted: Wed Oct 04, 2006 5:57 am
i wonder if that word was used in any spelling bees.
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Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 10:53 am
Now,
Try saying that backwards
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Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 10:37 pm
try saying those words three times fast!
hahaha xp
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Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 1:25 am
Wow, you people really know how to entertain other people! biggrin How can you know such words? I don't even know the longest word in my own language, Swedish! eek
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Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 2:06 am
Almost is the longest word in English language that is in alphabetical order.
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Xx Daii Dreamer xX Vice Captain
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Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 7:52 pm
Sugihide Wow, I amaze that a word like that does exist. Where did you read that on question i google the longest word in English language
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Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 11:28 pm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_English_wordtake note of this fact Quote: The longest word in English depends upon the definition of what constitutes an English word. English allows new words to be formed by construction; long words are coined; place names may be considered words; technical terms may be arbitrarily long. Length can be in terms of orthography and number of written letters or phonology and the number of phonemes. Quote: The longest word in any major English language dictionary is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, a 45-letter word supposed to refer to a lung disease contracted from the inhalation of volcanic ash, but research has discovered that this word was originally intended as a hoax. It has since been used in a close approximation of its originally intended meaning, lending at least some degree of validity to its claim.[1] more interesting things are long names of places Quote: There is some debate as to whether a place name is a legitimate word. However, the longest officially recognized place name in an English-speaking country is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu (85 letters) which is a hill in New Zealand. or more helpful, an actual long word you can use in scrabble Quote: The longest technically legal Scrabble word in North American play is ethylenediaminetetraacetates (28 letters).
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Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 6:29 pm
That would be really hard to spell... xd
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