What is the longest word you know?

The longest word I know is supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.

EDIT: THIS DOES NOT INCLUDE NAMES OF DISEASES, CITIES, TOWNS, VILLAGES, AND ANY OTHER NAMES. Happy -!Felu!-?

antidisestablishmentarianism

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Originally posted by ShawnZ
antidisestablishmentarianism

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antidisestablishmentarianism

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Originally posted by NagamasaAzai
The longest word I know is supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.

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"smiles" is definately the longest word




..why?


...there's a MILE between the first and last letter

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Originally posted by NagamasaAzai
supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.

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Originally posted by ShawnZ

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Originally posted by NagamasaAzai
supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.

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first of all, thats two words, and not real ones at that

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disrespectfulnesses

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The longest word has been said, but the shortest sentence is Go.

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Originally posted by Underlord

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Originally posted by ShawnZ

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Originally posted by NagamasaAzai
supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.

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first of all, thats two words, and not real ones at that

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I already said that it isn't a real word

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Excerpt from http://dictionary.reference.com/help/faq/language/t46.html

What is the longest word in the dictionary?

It might be "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" (which appears in the Oxford English Dictionary), unless you want to count names of diseases (such as "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis," defined by the OED as 'a factitious word alleged to mean 'a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust, but occurring chiefly as an instance of a very long word'), places (such as "Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch," a village in Wales), chemical compounds (apparently there is one that is 1,913 letters long), and also a few words found only in Joyce's Finnegans Wake.

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Originally posted by -dt-
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Originally posted by Chestah

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Originally posted by -dt-
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Why do you always have to win

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Originally posted by traxor
The longest word has been said, but the shortest sentence is Go.

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Originally posted by Ddunk

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Originally posted by traxor
The longest word has been said, but the shortest sentence is Go.

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"No." works too.

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heheh,
"U"
Theres the shortest one

(in txt language)

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Originally posted by Nathan
heheh,
"U"
Theres the shortest one

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Yes.

Text language doesn't count. No.

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Originally posted by Underlord
antidisestablishmentarianism

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Originally posted by NagamasaAzai
The longest word I know is supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.

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That's not even a real word.

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Originally posted by Eljay
Text language doesn't count. No.

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no, it doesn't.

kk, I was only joking anywas :/

I know the word Vaccination how good am I!!!

Or,
Brenninkmeyer Is the longest on ei know part form superfradi........

"esternocleidomastoideo" is the longest word I can recall now xD
"Sternocleidomastoid muscle" is called in English it seems (according to the wikipedia).

Kuulilennutunneliluuk (but that's in Estonian ).

In English, uh... semipreciousness?

Want a prize?

Euouae is the longest word with only vowels

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Originally posted by .Vimto.
Euouae is the longest word with no vowels

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Originally posted by absorbation

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Originally posted by .Vimto.
Euouae is the longest word with only vowels

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Do you know what a vowel is?

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Originally posted by .Vimto.
Yes  - A E I O U -

Euouae is the term for the closing words of the Doxology in a gregorian chant.

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Originally posted by Time
You should also disallow agglutinative construction, which is what creates "antidisestablishmentarianism". Why? Because via this construct I could make "great...grandfather" and claim it as a word.

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Originally posted by Time
"Floccinaucinihilipilification" is one letter longer than "antidisestablishmentarianism" - I win!

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Originally posted by NagamasaAzai
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious is a lot longer.

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youallsux

Diclorodifeniltricloroetano real chemical

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Originally posted by tony
youallsux

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Originally posted by NagamasaAzai

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Originally posted by Time
You should also disallow agglutinative construction, which is what creates "antidisestablishmentarianism". Why? Because via this construct I could make "great...grandfather" and claim it as a word.

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Its great-.... not greatgreat. Therefore, ice-cream is 2 words. And you word is actually a lot of words.

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Originally posted by wiki
English is a language which permits the legitimate extension of existing words to serve new purposes by the addition of prefixes and suffixes. This is sometimes referred to as agglutinative construction. This process can create arbitrarily long words: for example, the prefixes pseudo- (false, spurious) and anti- (against, opposed to) can be added as many times as desired. A word like anti-aircraft (pertaining to the defense against aircraft) is easily extended to anti-anti-aircraft (pertaining to counteracting the defense against aircraft, a legitimate concept) and can from there be prefixed with an endless stream of "anti-"s, each time creating a new level of counteraction. More familiarily, the addition of numerous "great"s to a relative, e.g. great-great-great-grandfather, can produce words of arbitrary length.

"Antidisestablishmentarianism" is the longest common example of a word formed by agglutinative construction, as follows:

establish
    to set up, put in place, or institute (originally from the Latin stare [special a edited out], to stand)
dis-establish
    ending the established status of a body, in particular a church, given such status by law, such as the Church of England
disestablish-ment
    the separation of church and state (specifically in this context it is the political movement of the 1860s in Britain)
anti-disestablishment
    opposition to disestablishment
antidisestablishment-arian
    an advocate of opposition to disestablishment (alternatively, but less likely and quite similar in meaning, "opposed to disestablishmentarians", depending on what "anti-" is taken to belong to)
antidisestablishmentarian-ism
    the movement or ideology of advocates of opposition to disestablishment; the movement or ideology that opposes disestablishment

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Originally posted by ShawnZ
antidisestablishmentarianism

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Time ftw. He's always right.

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Originally posted by Voldemort
Diclorodifeniltricloroetano real chemical

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Originally posted by Time

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Originally posted by NagamasaAzai
Its great-.... not greatgreat. Therefore, ice-cream is 2 words. And you word is actually a lot of words.

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious is a lot longer. Even check the link I posted way up above. (Which is: http://dictionary.reference.com/help/faq/language/t46.html)

TIME and ADMINS: Please edit Time's post as the great....grandfather is stretching the posts too far.

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No, agglutinative construction allows greatgreatetcgrandfather to be one word, just as it allows antidisestablishmentarianism to be one. And the hyphens are optional. As is shown by antidisestablishmentarianism being spelt without them. Ice is not a common prefix, thus ice-cream is not a construct under this pattern. In fact "ice cream" is rarely, if ever, hyphenated.

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Originally posted by Time

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious is poetic licence, a nonsense word, even its dictionary "definition" says so.

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Originally posted by Time

And: no, I won't edit my post. It makes my point. Get over it.

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Originally posted by Time

Finally, you have mistakes in your post. Basic mistakes; why would anyone trust your knowledge of English over mine with those mistakes? :---(

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the shortest thing that i know is sex