how is it spelled and how is it pronounced
2006-12-19 05:54:55 · 9 answers · asked by jade c 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS (45 letters; a lung disease caused by breathing in certain particles) is the longest word in any English-language dictionary. (It is also spelled -koniosis.)
2006-12-19 06:29:00 · answer #1 · answered by ♥Roberta. 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The longest word in any major English language dictionary is pneumonoÂultraÂmicroÂscopicÂsilicoÂvolcanoÂconiosis, a 45-letter word supposed to refer to a lung disease contracted from the inhalation of volcanic ash, 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 meaning, lending at least some degree of validity to its claim.
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2006-12-20 07:27:31 · answer #2 · answered by catzpaw 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We do have genuine (if rather obviously deliberate) examples in our files of antidisestablishmentarianism (28 letters) and floccinaucinihilipilification (29 letters), which are listed in some of our larger dictionaries. Other words (mainly technical ones) recorded in the complete Oxford English Dictionary include:
otorhinolaryngological (22 letters),
immunoelectrophoretically (25 letters),
psychophysicotherapeutics (25 letters),
thyroparathyroidectomized (25 letters),
pneumoencephalographically (26 letters),
radioimmunoelectrophoresis (26 letters),
psychoneuroendocrinological (27 letters)
hepaticocholangiogastrostomy (28 letters),
spectrophotofluorometrically (28 letters),
pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism (30 letters).
2006-12-19 14:07:43 · answer #3 · answered by mdbayboater 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
"Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis" It's a disease that minders get from breathing in too much dust found in the mines. It's pronounced like you would read it, though it may take a while to get therough the word the first time. :) I'll give it to you in 2 parts, since Yahoo won't let me type the entire word... (Pneumonoultramicroscopic) and then (silicovolcanokoniosis).
2006-12-19 14:03:53 · answer #4 · answered by mr.oriental 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
antidisestabilshmentarianism
I don't think its in every dictionary though
there is no trick to the pronounciation.
2006-12-19 13:57:28 · answer #5 · answered by Other sheep 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
smiles -- It's a mile between the first and last letter.
2006-12-19 14:00:27 · answer #6 · answered by Haven17 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
iam with haven 17 ...
2006-12-19 14:07:42 · answer #7 · answered by kim22 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
urmomallnightlong
2006-12-19 13:57:48 · answer #8 · answered by ERICA J 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
a-n-t-i-d-i-s-t-a-b-l-i-s-h-m-e-n-t-a-r-r-i-s-u-i-m (antidistablishmentarrisuim) anit-distablish-mint-airy-ism
2006-12-19 13:57:47 · answer #9 · answered by Taylor G 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋