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I want to know and whoever can answer me and give me it's meaning,origin of language,wether it is a noun,verb,adjective,or whatever you call it,and proof that it is the longest word in the english dictionary.they get chosen by me as the best answer.but if you cannot give me all that info i still want to know what the word is.

2006-08-19 09:18:05 · 9 answers · asked by jw 3 in Entertainment & Music Other - Entertainment

9 answers

The longest word in any major English language dictionary is
pneumo­noultra­microscopic­silicovolcano­coniosis, a 45-letter word supposed to refer to a lung disease, 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 context, lending at least some degree of validity to its claim.

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. (More recent editions of the book have since acknowledged pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.) Defined as "the act of estimating (something) as worthless", its usage has been recorded as far back as 1741.[1][2] In recent times its usage has been recorded in the proceedings of the United States Senate by Senator Robert Byrd [3], and at the White House by Bill Clinton's press secretary Mike McCurry, albeit sarcastically.[4] It is the longest non-technical word in the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary.

2006-08-19 09:28:49 · answer #1 · answered by hersh108 2 · 0 0

The longest word in any major English language dictionary is pneumo­noultra­microscopic­silico­volcano­coniosis, a 45-letter word supposed to refer to a lung disease, 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 context, lending at least some degree of validity to its claim.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_word_in_English

2006-08-19 09:28:20 · answer #2 · answered by daddysboicub 5 · 0 0

Supacalifragilisticexpialidocious

2006-08-19 09:42:28 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

What is the most boring question I've answered today?? Oh, yeah, it's yours!

2006-08-19 09:26:48 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

smiles--there's a mile between the 's'es

hahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!

sorry just HAD to do that

2006-08-19 09:25:02 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Read the blasted "Dictionary " for yourself. Then YOU can
enlighten US.

2006-08-19 09:23:47 · answer #6 · answered by anitababy.brainwash 6 · 0 2

ANTIDISESTABLISHMENTARIANISM

OPPOSITION TO THE DISESTABLISHMENT OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND

2006-08-19 09:27:06 · answer #7 · answered by MIGHTY MINNIE 6 · 0 0

antidisestablishmentarianism

2006-08-19 09:23:15 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

supercarifragilisticexpiralitosious

2006-08-19 09:24:47 · answer #9 · answered by I-C-U 5 · 0 0

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