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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread The longest word #73571 06/19/2002 6:17 PM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 21 adam stranger adam stranger Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 21 What is the longest word in English? In Polish we have konstantynopolitanczykiewiczowianeczka :) Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: The longest word #73572 06/19/2002 6:44 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 Dear Adam: Here is a URL to a lot of long words, most of them unlikely to be good for anything except for word games. One of them has forty-five letters. http://members.aol.com/gulfhigh2/words11.html http://www.dd.chalmers.se/~f95lith/longword.html Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: The longest word #73573 06/19/2002 6:56 PM Joined: Apr 2002 Posts: 475 manchester uk dodyskin addict dodyskin addict Joined: Apr 2002 Posts: 475 manchester uk antidisestablishmentarianism is the longest one i know of that is in common use Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: The longest word #73574 06/19/2002 6:58 PM Joined: Apr 2002 Posts: 475 manchester uk dodyskin addict dodyskin addict Joined: Apr 2002 Posts: 475 manchester uk just looked at your links wwh and there is antidisestablishmentarianism, sorry Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: The longest word #73575 06/19/2002 6:58 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass >most of them unlikely to be good for anything except for word games. with the notable exception of floccinaucinihilpilification, which has proved to be worthless in the extreme, to the point of being invaluable to me. [cross-threading to weakly themes and see also http://home.mn.rr.com/wwftd/) edit: and it beats out that 'antidis-' word by one letter, which is why it gets the OED1 claim. edit2: I know what you mean about a thrill -- mine now comes with saying floccinaucinihilipilification edit3: actually, this is a subject that was covered by AWAD back in '97: http://www.wordsmith.org/awad/archives/0597 Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: The longest word #73576 06/19/2002 7:00 PM Joined: Apr 2002 Posts: 475 manchester uk dodyskin addict dodyskin addict Joined: Apr 2002 Posts: 475 manchester uk just like writing antidisestablishmentarianism, oooh, it gives me a thrill Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: The longest word #73577 06/19/2002 7:02 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 Hey, tsuwm: Did you notice my discovery of etymology of "nauci" - it is genitive of "naucum" Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: The longest word #73578 06/19/2002 8:12 PM Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6,296 Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... Wordwind Carpal Tunnel Wordwind Carpal Tunnel Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6,296 Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... I really like hippopotamusesquepedalian and hippopotamusesquepedalophobia. I'm being lazy and not looking up their spellings, but I'm in the ballpark. If you bother going to Quinion, he has a word that's longer than the flocci one. Maybe I'll get a little energetic and go look it up. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: The longest word #73579 06/20/2002 3:23 AM Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 833 Eastern Ontario, Canada modestgoddess old hand modestgoddess old hand Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 833 Eastern Ontario, Canada I know what you mean about a thrill -- mine now comes with saying floccinaucinihilipilification and how DO you say it?! flox-in-ow-seenee-heelee-peelee-fee-cay-shun? am I close? and where does the principal accent fall? on the first syllable? Let us go in peace to love and serve the board. 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