What is the longest word you know of?
By Zamboni
@Zamboni (160)
Canada
February 20, 2007 12:18am CST
Today I came across a new word I had never seen before and it seemed to be the longest Id ever read.The word was counterrevolutionaries wow 22 letters.Can you top that?
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@misskatonic (3723)
• United States
20 Feb 07
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosi. Longest word in the English language. Not one that you find use for often, it refers to a specific medical condition. And of course, there's antidisestablishmentarianism. A tad bit more common, that one. :D
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@Ciniful (1587)
• Canada
20 Feb 07
Ahh, I sit corrected. That's one I haven't heard before. And yet Wiki and hundreds of other sites still say anti blah blah blah (I'm not typing that again) is the longest word in the english language ... then they say the same for this one, lol.
Letter count wins ... that's a long damn word. I think I prefer "virus" ... easier to spell AND pronounce. :D
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@Ciniful (1587)
• Canada
20 Feb 07
Yup, I can. Antidisestablishmentarianism is the longest word in the english language, weighing in at 28 letters. And the definition, according to Dictionary.com is:
"–noun
opposition to the withdrawal of state support or recognition from an established church, esp. the Anglican Church in 19th-century England."
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@nowment (1757)
• United States
20 Feb 07
For some of the longest words see the url at the end.
28 antidisestablishmentarianism = belief which opposes removing the tie between church and state
34 supercalifragilisticexpialidocious = song title from disney movie mary poppins counts as a word since it is in the English Oxford Dictionary
45 pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis = a long disease caused by breathing volcanic dust
www.fun-with-words.com/word_longest.html
@agentalpo (55)
• United States
21 Feb 07
http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/name.html
Or you can visit the above link to see some non-English proper nouns. It has the name of Bangkok in Thai, which holds the Guinness Book of World REcords record for the longest place name in the world. I've actually visited the Welsh city that that site discusses at the top of the page and of course got a picture of the welcome sign.
@loisse21 (214)
• Philippines
23 Feb 07
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.. its consists of 34 letters.it means beautiful. i learned about this word when i was in grade school when i first saw the movie Mary Poppins. so far its still the longest word i know.