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But Antidisestablishmentarianism is the longest word in the english language still used today.

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Originally posted by Fuzzles
when i was young i called people fatty boombas, found out boomba is a word

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lol

heres another pretty long word: methylchloroisothiazolinone. I found it ages ago, sum chemical in a shampoo.

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Originally posted by vaccination
But Antidisestablishmentarianism is the longest word in the english language still used today.

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'The longest word currently listed in Oxford dictionaries is rather of this kind: it is the supposed lung-disease pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (45 letters).'
From http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/aboutwords/longestword

Edit: Anyone wanna record themselves saying that?

    man thats long! lol.

You should do a spelling bee with that word (pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis) , it would bee so funny.

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Originally posted by Wikipedia
The longest word in any major English language dictionary is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, 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.

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Originally posted by Again Wikipedia
The Guinness Book of Records, in its 1992 and subsequent editions, declared the "longest real word" in the English language to be floccinaucinihilipilification at 29 letters.

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