I was chatting with andrew about coming up with a new name for our TMB group and wanted to find a really good name but our friend said we should only use one word (i wanted to call ourselves HandsofGod-see,its not one word)
so i thought as a joke, to put
SUPERCALIFRAGILISTICEXPIALIDOCIOUS = song title from the Walt Disney movie Mary Poppins.It is in the Oxford English Dictionary.
"But then one day I learned a word
That saved me achin' nose,
The biggest word you ever 'eard,
And this is 'ow it goes:
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!"
BUT no, to my surprise, this was not the longest word in the dictionary..
u wanna know what is?
LONGEST WORDS
PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS (also spelled
PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOKONIOSIS) (45letters)
= a lung disease caused by breathing in particles of siliceous volcanic dust.This 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.
*(friggin long word for juz 'a lung disease')HEPATICOCHOLANGIOCHOLECYSTENTEROSTOMIES (37letters)
= a surgical creation of a connection between the gall bladder and a hepatic duct and between the intestine and the gall bladder.This is the longest word in Gould's Medical Dictionary.
HIPPOPOTOMONSTROSESQUIPEDALIAN (30letters)
= pertaining to a very long word.From Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure and Preposterous Words.
FLOCCINAUCINIHILIPILIFICATION (29letters)
= an estimation of something as worthless.This is the longest word in the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. Interestingly the most common letter in English, E, does not appear in this word at all, whilst I occurs a total of nine times. The word dates back to 1741. The 1992 Guinness Book of World Records calls floccinaucinihilipilification the longest real word in the Oxford English Dictionary, and refers to pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis as the longest made-up one.
HONORIFICABILITUDINITATIBUS (27letters)
= honorableness.
The word first appeared in English in 1599, and in 1721 was listed by Bailey's Dictionary as the longest word in English. It was used by Shakespeare in Love's Labor's Lost (Costard; Act V, Scene I):
"O, they have lived long on the alms-basket of words.
I marvel thy master hath not eaten thee for a word;
for thou art not so long by the head ashonorificabilitudinitatibus:
thou art easierswallowed than a flap-dragon."
Shakespeare does not use any other words over 17 letters in length.
CHEMICAL TERMSTwo chemical terms (3,641 and 1,913 letters long) have appeared in the Guinness Book of World Records. They were withdrawn because they have never been used by chemists, and there is no theoretical limit to the length of possible legitimate chemical terms. A DNA molecule could have a name of over 1,000,000,000 letters if it was written out in full.
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= Tobacco Mosaic Virus, Dahlemense Strain.This word has appeared in the American Chemical Society's Chemical Abstracts and is thus considered by some to be the longest real word.
*yes...its ONE word..take a deep breath and say it out loud..i bet u'll lost breath after the 20th syllable..whahaaha...*
PLACE NAMESTAUMATAWHAKATANGIHANGAKOAUAUOTAMATEATURIPUKAKAPIKIMAUNGAHORONUKUPOKAIWHENUAKITANATAHUA (85 letters)hill in New Zealand.
This Maori name was in general use, but is now generally abbreviated to Taumata. The name means: the summit of the hill, where Tamatea, who is known as the land eater, slid down, climbed up and swallowed mountains, played on his nose flute to his loved one.
GORSAFAWDDACHAIDRAIGODANHEDDOGLEDDOLONPENRHYNAREURDRAETHCEREDIGIONA (66 letters) town in Wales.
The name means: the Mawddach station and its dragon teeth at the Northern Penrhyn Road on the golden beach of Cardigan bay.
LLANFAIRPWLLGWYNGYLLGOGERYCHWYRNDROBWLLLLANTYSILIOGOGOGOCHA (58 letters) town in North Wales.
The name roughly translates as: St. Mary's Church in the hollow of the white hazel near to the rapid whirlpool of Llantysilio of the red cave. It is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records.
CHARGOGAGOGMANCHARGOGAGOGCHARBUNAGUNGAMOG (41 letters)
Another name for Lake Webster in Massachusetts. Probably the longest name in the United States. Alternative spellings are:
CHARGOGGAGOGGMANCHAUGGAGOGGCHAUBUNAGUNGAMOGG (44letters ) ,
CHARGOGGAGOGGMANCHAUGGAGOGGCHAUBUNAGUNGAMAUGG (45letters),CHARGOGGAGOGGMANCHAUGGAGOGGCHABUNAGUNGAMAUGG(44letters) .
NUNATHLOOGAGAMIUTBINGOI (23letters)
The Eskimo name for some dunes in Alaska, according to The Book of Names by J. N. Hook.
and the funniest most ironic thing ever...
you know that there's such a thing as a phobia for long words?and that's not the only funny thing..what's ironic is that this symptom is called
hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia!(It is literally the hippopotamus- and monster-related fear of very long words. )
hahahaahaaaaa....
