I'm speechless

[Keren]

Did you know . . .

The longest word in any of the major english dictionaries, including the Oxford English Dictionary, and thus recognised as the longest word in the english language is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (45 letters), which refers to a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust, mostly found in volcanoes. However, there has been some debate about this as the word was created specifically to be the longest word in the english language.

The second longest word in the english language, following the parameters as above, at 28 letters is electrophotomicrographically.

Antidisestablishmentarianism is another favourite, at 28 letters.

Floccinaucinihilipilification (29 letters) is the longest non-technical word.

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (34 letters) from Mary Poppins is defined as "a word that you say when you don't know what to say".

Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahul (85 letters) is recognised as the longest place-name in an English speaking country. It is a hill in New Zealand.

The longest multi-word place name in the world spelled in English is Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Ayuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Piman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit, the formal ceremonial name for Bangkok, Thailand, meaning "The city of angels, the great city, the eternal jewel city, the impregnable city of God Indra, the grand capital of the world endowed with nine precious gems, the happy city, abounding in an enormous Royal Palace which resembles the heavenly abode where reigns the reincarnated god, a city given by Indra and built by Vishnukam".

The longest hypothetically legal word in Scrabble is ethyl­enediamine­tetra­acetates (28 letters). It is 'legal' in name only, because it would not fit on the board.

The longest word with the vowels in order is abstemiously.

The humuhumunukunukuapua‘a, or reef triggerfish, is Hawaii's official state fish. At 22 letters (including the okina), it is one of the best known very long one-word names for an animal, with a common saying being that the name is longer than the fish.

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is a 36 letter word for fear of long words.

 

[cowboy44]

I kan tale you ain't from Texas usin works that long ,down here if it gets over ate letters long we quit usin em I used to wont to go down younder but if yo'all use words like that I wood knot know what you talkin bout

 

[Alice]

Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahul

I'd like to hear someone pronounce that...I think... :shock:

Alice

 

[Just_a_girl]

I kan tale you ain't from Texas usin works that long ,down here if it gets over ate letters long we quit usin em I used to wont to go down younder but if yo'all use words like that I wood knot know what you talkin bout

I better stay here too then... :lol: :dunce: :lol2:

 

[john250]

Who figures these things out? When I go past 2 syllables, no one understands me.

{Floccinaucinihilipilification (29 letters) is the longest non-technical word.}

----can you use this one in a sentence? please. :lol:

 

[Bek]

The only one I'd heard of is Antidisestablishmentarianism.

Oh and that hill in NZ

lol :lol:

 

[Tommy Ruyle]

Somebody has WAY too much time on their hands! :D :D :D

 

[chrisy]

all I can say to you is...........

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch. ;-)

 

[Keren]

all I can say to you is...........

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch. ;-)

Have you been there? I hear it is pretty . . . and that tourists like to pose next to next to the sign at the train station! Maybe I will visit one day . . .

Who figures these things out? When I go past 2 syllables, no one understands me.

{Floccinaucinihilipilification (29 letters) is the longest non-technical word.}

----can you use this one in a sentence? please.

The word is defined as "the act of estimating something as worthless, or making something worthless by depreciation".

The OED dates its first use in literature at 1741 in William Shenstone's Works in Prose and Verse: "I loved him for nothing so much as his flocci-nauci-nihili-pili-fication of money".

In recent times its usage has been recorded in the proceedings of the United States Senate by Senator Robert Byrd Discussion between Sen. Moynihan and Sen. Byrd "Mr. President, may I say to the distinguished Senator from New York, I used that word on the Senate floor myself 2 or 3 years ago. I cannot remember just when or what the occasion was, but I used it on that occasion to indicate that whatever it was I was discussing it was something like a mere trifle or nothing really being of moment." Congressional Record June 17, 1991, p. S7887, and at the White House by Bill Clinton's press secretary Mike McCurry, albeit sarcastically. December 6, 1995, White House Press Briefing in discussing Congressional Budget Office estimates and assumptions: "But if you -- as a practical matter of estimating the economy, the difference is not great. There's a little bit of floccinaucinihilipilification going on here."

 

[chrisy]

'The Chruch of St Mary in the hollow of the white hazel trees near the rapid whirlpool by St. Tysilio's of the red cave' Yes people do stand by the sign and have photo's taken.

I have traveled through there but never stopped, as we were on our way to South Wales, and unfortunatly did not have the time to spare. may go back one day, as it is not to far for a weekend break.

 

[john250]

all I can say to you is...........

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch. ;-)

Have you been there? I hear it is pretty . . . and that tourists like to pose next to next to the sign at the train station! Maybe I will visit one day . . .

Who figures these things out? When I go past 2 syllables, no one understands me.

{Floccinaucinihilipilification (29 letters) is the longest non-technical word.}

----can you use this one in a sentence? please.

The word is defined as "the act of estimating something as worthless, or making something worthless by depreciation".

The OED dates its first use in literature at 1741 in William Shenstone's Works in Prose and Verse: "I loved him for nothing so much as his flocci-nauci-nihili-pili-fication of money".

In recent times its usage has been recorded in the proceedings of the United States Senate by Senator Robert Byrd Discussion between Sen. Moynihan and Sen. Byrd "Mr. President, may I say to the distinguished Senator from New York, I used that word on the Senate floor myself 2 or 3 years ago. I cannot remember just when or what the occasion was, but I used it on that occasion to indicate that whatever it was I was discussing it was something like a mere trifle or nothing really being of moment." Congressional Record June 17, 1991, p. S7887, and at the White House by Bill Clinton's press secretary Mike McCurry, albeit sarcastically. December 6, 1995, White House Press Briefing in discussing Congressional Budget Office estimates and assumptions: "But if you -- as a practical matter of estimating the economy, the difference is not great. There's a little bit of floccinaucinihilipilification going on here."

Now I have to find a way to work it into my conversation! :lol:

 

[chrisy]

john250 you could use it at the next Cattle market, when the cows are not as high priced as you would like them to be. People will look at you and think, there goes a brainiac, or more likely smart a$$. :roll: :lol: give that man a Cow.