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I don't know if it's true, but I was told (when I was a kid) that this was the longest word in the English language. I assume that doesn't include scientific or place names.
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thank you, wikipedia
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
Pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism
Floccinaucinihilipilification
* Strengths is the longest word in the English language containing only one vowel.
* Rhythms is the longest word in the English language containing none of the five recognised vowels.
* Schmaltzed and strengthed appear to be the longest monosyllabic words recorded in OED; but if squirrelled is pronounced as one syllable only (as permitted in SOED for squirrel), it is the longest.
* Euouae, a medieval musical term, is the longest English word consisting only of vowels, and the word with the most consecutive vowels. However, the “word” itself is simply a mnemonic consisting of the vowels to be sung in the phrase “seculorum Amen” at the end of the lesser doxology. (Although u was often used interchangeably with v, and the variant “Evovae” is occasionally used, the v in these cases would still be a vowel.)
* The longest words with no repeated letters are dermatoglyphics, misconjugatedly and uncopyrightables.[15]
* The longest word whose letters are in alphabetical order is the eight-letter Aegilops, a grass genus.
* The longest words recorded in OED with each vowel only once, and in order, are abstemiously, affectiously, and tragediously (OED). Fracedinously and gravedinously (constructed from adjectives in OED) have thirteen letters; Gadspreciously, constructed from Gadsprecious (in OED), has fourteen letters. Facetiously is among the few other words directly attested in OED with single occurrences of all five vowels and the semivowel y.
The first word looks scientific to me.
BTW Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis just means black lung disease.
It’s not really black lung disease- Black lung is caused specifically by deposits of coal dust in the lungs. Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is more specifically irritation caused by bits of silica dust from a volcanic eruption, as if the name didn’t imply it
I always thought it was Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.
No, that’s just the longest word normal people can actually pronounce.
no it’s ‘smiles’ with a mile between each ‘s’
Floccinaucinihilipilification is the act of assessing something as worthless. I Floccinaucinilipilificize the act of memorizing big words.
Sauce?
BTW I saw teh link, but I remember there was a bigger version with all the other shenannighens involving red and blue people.
If you click on the link then click on full size, you’ll get a larger version.
This may be the other pic you’re talking about:
www.myconfinedspace.com/2009/10/03/isms-and-more/
Stop all this nonsense! I have hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia