What is the longest word in the english language?
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FLOCCINAUCINIHILIPILIFICATION...\nconsidered to be the longest "real" word.  \n\n\nPNEUMO-\nNOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICO-\nVOLCANOCONIOSIS...\nmade up for the sole purpose of being the longest word. \nI had to split that word up because it kept cutting off the end for some reason.\n\nElipsis...generally, the use of dots to replace omitted words, phrases within a quote, letters, etc. I abuse it liberally.\n\nI enjoy closing my eyes and letting the mellifluous tones of my husband's voice roll over me. (Unless he is yelling...that is rather more like a sonic boom.)
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No, supercalifragilisticexpialidocious is NOT the longest english word. Neither is antidisestablishmentarianism (although it's one of the most well known really long words). There's floccinaucinihilipilification (one letter longer than antidis...) and pneumonoultramicroscopic- silicovolcanoconiosis, at 45 letters, althought there's some dispute about that one, since it may have been made up for no other reason than to be a really long word.\n\nAnyway, back to supercalifragilisticexpialidocious... it doesn't mean anything. It's just a made up word that sounds really impressive. It's purpose (in the song) is to make the speaker sound intelligent ("...if you say it loud enough you'll always sound precocious"). \n\n"Of course, you could always say it backward, which would be docious-expi-ali- istic-cali-fragil-rupus, but that's going a bit too far, don't you think?"\n\nI listened to this song way too often in my childhood.
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Agree with some of the choices posted by others. \n\nHere is my two cents worth and some trivia: \n\nFYI - Floccinaucinihilipilification is the longest word used in a commercial.  An insurance company (Geico?)commercial used this word in a spelling bee scenario.  All the kids are stunned. Even the judge seems baffled trying to use it in a sentence. The insurance company pledge, "No Hard Words".  See a link below for the word history.\n\nBut as mentioned in that link,"..(it was the longest in the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary but was supplanted by pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis in the second)...\n\nRegarding US Standard Dictionaries, at 45 letters long (45p) it appeared in the Webster's Third New International Dictionary, the Random House Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged, and the Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary.\n\nSee Wiki source for the word origin.
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SUPER­CALI­FRAGI­LISTIC­EXPI­ALI­DOCIOUS (34)\n\nPNEUMONO­ULTRA­MICRO­SCOPIC­SILICO­VOLCANO­CONIOSIS (45)(Lungs disease)\n\nfloccinaucinihilipilification (29) (official english long word)\n\nA popular joke answer to the "longest word" question is the word smiles, credited as the longest word because there is a mile between each s.\nssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssmilessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss.\n\nhave fun\nemarketingclass@gmail.com
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elyas you are wrong!you are making it up\n\nDermatoglyphics, misconjugatedly, and uncopyrightable, each fifteen letters long, are the longest English words in which no letter appears more than once.
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The Shortest word with the vowels in alphabetical order is AERIOUS (7 Letters).\nThe Longest such word is PHRAGELLIORHYNCHUS - a protozoan (18 Letters).\nSource: http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/wordtriv.htm\n\nAlso another ggod source:\nhttp://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=17\n\nabstemious\nabstemiously\nabstentious\nadventitious\nadventitiously\narenicolous\narsenious\ncavernicolous\n\n\nHere are some other words that have all five vowels in the correct order, but \nalso contain some duplicate vowels which are out of order:\n\nabstemiousness\nabstemiousnesses\nadenocarcinomatous\namentiferous\nanemophilous\nantireligious\nargentiferous\narteriovenous\nautoecious\nautoeciously\nfacetiousness\nfacetiousnesses\ngarnetiferous\nsacrilegious\nsacrilegiously\nsacrilegiousness\nsacrilegiousnesses\nultraserious\n\nA great tool for solving crossword puzzles, anagrams, and questions like this \nis an alveary. There are many freeware and shareware ones available on the web.\n\nhttp://www.google.com/search?q=alveary\n\nBryson's TEA (The Electronic Alveary) is excellent. It used to be freeware but \nis now shareware. \n\nhttp://www.bryson.demon.co.uk/tea.html\n\nThe old free DOS version can still be downloaded from\n\nhttp://www.und.nodak.edu/org/crypto/crypto/anagram/tea/\n\n    'Eunoia' is the shortest work in English to contain all\n    five vowels, and the word quite literally means 'beuti-\n    ful thinking'. _Eunoia_ is a univocal libogram, in which\n    each chapter restricts itself to the use of a single vowel.\n\nThe whole book appears to be available online,\nSee http://www.chbooks.com/online/eunoia/new_ennui.html\n\nPLEASE NOTE - IMPORTANT - READ THIS FOLLOWING NOTE:\nNothing is from me - i found it all at the following 2 links:\nhttp://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/wordtriv.htm\nAND\nhttp://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=17
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The Guinness Book of Records, in its 1992 and subsequent editions, declared the "longest real word" in the English language to be floccinaucinihilipilification at 29 letters. Defined as the act of estimating (something) as worthless, its usage has been recorded as far back as 1741. In recent times its usage has been recorded in the proceedings of the United States Senate by Senator Jesse Helms, and at the White House by Bill Clinton's press secretary Mike McCurry, albeit sarcastically. It is the longest non-technical word in the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. The acceptability of the 33-letter adverbial form floccinaucinihilipilificastically is subject to controversy.
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It isn't in the dictionary because you spelt it wrong. \n\nTry: Antidisestablishmentarianism\n\nFrom the Oxford English Dictionary:\n\nProperly, opposition to the disestablishment of the Church of England (rare): but popularly cited as an example of a long word.  \n\n1900 N. & Q. 25 Aug. 147/1 In the recent biography of Dr. Benson is an entry from the Archbishop's diary to the effect that ‘the Free Kirk of the North of Scotland are strong antidisestablishmentarians’. 1923 in Brewer's Dict. Phr. & Fable (new ed.) s.v. Long words. 1960 Amrita Bazar Patrika 17 June 6/4 But then ‘Antidisestablishmentarianism’ contains three more letters, as pointed out by two readers. 1984 T. AUGARDE Oxf. Guide Word Games xxvi. 216 The longest words that most people know are antidisestablishmentarianism..and supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.
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No idea; however, stewardesses is the longest word you can type with only one hand -- that is when typing "properly".
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"smiles" is the longest word because there is a mile between the first letter and the last. :)
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According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the longest English word of one syllable is the ten-letter scraunched, appearing in a 1620 translation of Cervantes' Don Quixote. It is a largely obsolete form of scrunched or crunched.\n\nThe eleven-letter word broughammed (created by analogy with bussed, biked, carted etc.), while readily pronounceable as one syllable in all dialects ("broomed"), is yet to appear in a print dictionary. See: "ough" words.\n\nThe 10-letter word "squirreled" is arguably monosyllabic.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_longest_English_words_with_one_syllable
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The longest word currently listed in Oxford dictionaries is rather of this kind: it is the supposed lung-disease pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (45 letters)\n\nSome editions of the Guinness Book of Records mention praetertranssubstantiationalistically (37 letters), used in Mark McShane's Untimely Ripped (1963), and aequeosalinocalcalinoceraceoaluminosocupreovitriolic (52 letters), attributed to Dr Edward Strother (1675-1737).
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PNEUMONO­ULTRA­MICRO­SCOPIC­SILICO­VOLCANO­CONIOSIS (also spelled PNEUMONO­ULTRA­MICRO­SCOPIC­SILICO­VOLCANO­KONIOSIS) = a lung disease caused by breathing in particles of siliceous volcanic dust.\nThis is the longest word in any English dictionary. However, it was coined by Everett Smith, the President of The National Puzzlers' League, in 1935 purely for the purpose of inventing a new "longest word". The Oxford English Dictionary described the word as factitious. Nevertheless it also appears in the Webster's, Random House, and Chambers dictionaries.
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I've found this on wikipedia.\nCheck this out.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titin\nI think this is the longest word I've ever seen.
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The Guinness Book of Records, in its 1992 and subsequent editions, declared the "longest real word" in the English language to be floccinaucinihilipilification at 29 letters
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OMG OMG I ABSOLUTELY LOVE WORDS!!!!!!! I AM THE WORD FREAK OF MY SCHOOL I CARRY A DICTIONARY AND THESAURUS TO EVERY CLASS AND MY NICKNAMES ARE MISS WEBSTER 2006 AND DICTIONARY GIRL!!! I LOVE IT WHEN PEOPLE ASK ME THIS QUESTION!! It's hard to choose though!! I love them all so much! Okay, one of my favorites would have to be idiosyncratic, which means weird in one's own way, or strangely unique! My newest favorite is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilico-\nvolcanoconiosis, which is a supposed disease contracted from the overinhalation of silica dust. The disease does not really exsist, but that word is still my favorite, because it is the longest one I know! And, I can flawlessly spell it without looking! I have yet to find the longest word ever, though, but I can do it!
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Floccinaucinihilipilification.\n\nThe Guinness Book of Records, in its 1992 and subsequent editions, declared the "longest real word" in the English language to be floccinaucinihilipilification at 29 letters. Defined as "the act of estimating (something) as worthless", its usage has been recorded as far back as 1741.