post office?
envelope?
alphabet?
2006-09-01 18:17:51
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answer #1
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answered by iamigloo 6
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Are you talking about one word with no repeating letter or an actual place that is the word which holds the most letters? If the latter is the case, I agree with the person above in that it is post office.
2006-09-02 01:19:45
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answer #2
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answered by serenitynow 3
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The longest word in any major English language dictionary is pneumonoÂultraÂmicroÂscopicÂsilicoÂvolcanoÂconiosis, 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. See the separate article for details.
The Guinness Book of Records, in its 1992 and previous editions, declared the "longest real word" in the English language to be flocciÂnauciÂnihiliÂpiliÂfication at 29 letters. (More recent editions of the book have since acknowledged pneumonoÂultraÂmicroÂscopicÂsilicoÂvolcanoÂconiosis.) Consisting of a series of Latin words meaning "nothing" and 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.
AntiÂdisÂestablishmentÂarianism (a nineteenth century movement in England opposed to the separation of church and state) at 28 letters is still in colloquial currency for being one of the longest words in the English language.
The longest word which appears in William Shakespeare's works is the 27-letter honorificÂabilitudÂinitatibus, appearing in Love's Labour's Lost. This is arguably an English word (rather than Latin), but only because it was Shakespeare who used it.
The humuhumu-nukunuku-a-pua‘a, or reef triggerfish, is Hawaii's official state fish.[5] At 22 letters (including the okina) it is one of the best known very long one-word names for an animal. It is occasionally quipped that the name is longer than the fish.
Although only fourteen letters long, sesquipedalian deserves a mention. It is derived from a nonce word used by the Roman author Horace, in his work Ars Poetica (The Art of Poetry). The quote is as follows: "Proicit ampullas et sesquipedalia verba," which means, "He throws aside his paint pots and his words that are a foot and a half long." The Oxford English dictionary[6] lists sesquipedalianism ("the practice of using words one and a half feet long"), and further derivations can be created as described in the Constructions section below.
2006-09-02 01:20:27
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answered by monkey_man_mto 2
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This is jokes and riddles the answer is smiles. There is a mile between the first and the last letter.
2006-09-02 01:22:08
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answered by art m 3
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Supercalifragilisticexpecalidoshus. The spelling is way off, but I am sure you know the word I mean.
2006-09-02 01:19:10
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answered by Anonymous
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Smiles........ there's a mile between the 2 s's. Ha ha, my dad told me that when I was very young.
2006-09-02 01:23:24
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answered by ~♥~mamma5~♥~ 2
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the one that's called "the longest word"
2006-09-02 02:20:07
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answered by LiTlE mIsSy 6
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alphabet, because it has all the letters
2006-09-02 11:24:49
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answered by Frank 3
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can we get a clue of what words ur talkin about
2006-09-02 01:17:58
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answered by devil_queen_biatch14 7
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antidisastablishmentarianism
or the alphabet becuz it has all of them
2006-09-02 01:20:33
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answered by Anonymous
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supercalifragilisticexpealladocius
(not sure if I spelled it right, I'm getting pretty tired).
2006-09-02 01:19:20
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answered by Searcher 7
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