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kitaristi0 wrote:Antidisestablishmentarianism is such a "ooh I'm in 4th grade and know a big word" word. Weaksauce.

I know Thats why I love it!

How about this: Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

Google it. I've been there

monker59 wrote:

kitaristi0 wrote:Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

I don't think that one counts because it is a fictitious word.

It's 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.

http://www.fun-with-words.com/word_longest.html

monker59 wrote:

kitaristi0 wrote:Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

I don't think that one counts because it is a fictitious word.

As moonbeam pointed out pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is actually a real word meaning "a factitious word alleged to mean 'a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust usually found in volcanos'". Since it's a medical term some people don't consider it to be the longest word in English.

Floccinaucinihilipilification ("the act or habit of estimating or describing something as worthless, or making something to be worthless by deprecation") has the Guiness World Record.


Frankly though, I don't find any of the really long words to be at all interesting and therefore fall outside the scope of this thread.

kitaristi0 wrote:As moonbeam pointed out pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is actually a real word meaning "a factitious word alleged to mean 'a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust usually found in volcanos"

I was making a joke. It's definition is "a fictitious word" so I said it wasn't a real word. Get it?

monker59 wrote:

kitaristi0 wrote:As moonbeam pointed out pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is actually a real word meaning "a factitious word alleged to mean 'a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust usually found in volcanos"

I was making a joke. It's definition is "a fictitious word" so I said it wasn't a real word. Get it?

Actually it's definition if a 'factitious word', which means it does exist...

Or was that part of the joke? This is getting confusing!

Cardza wrote:Or was that part of the joke? This is getting confusing!

Yes, that was the joke .

Clitoris, sounds like a mythical Greek monster which is ironic because it is a mythical object.

Superficial
Erudite (When pronounced right, I find it amusing)
Oedipus

bronz wrote:Clitoris, sounds like a mythical Greek monster which is ironic because it is a mythical object.

also like the tardis its biger on the inside than it would apear on the outside.

I am soooooo Disappointed in all of you!!!!!!!!!!!!

You have neglected the most fantastic..... greatest..... amazing word of all...

How could you all forget it!!! Shame on you all!!!!! Hang your heads...

Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious
If you say it loud enough you'll always sound precocious

SUPERCALIFRAGILISTICEXPOALIDOCIOUS

Um-deedledeedledeedle um-deedleday
Um-deedledeedledeedle um-deedleday
Um-deedledeedledeedle um-deedleday

Super-super
Supercali
Super Supercalifragi

So when the cat has got your tongue there's no need for dismay
Just summon up this word and then you've got a lot to say
But better use it carefully or it can change your life

For example...

Yes?

One day I said it to me girl and now me girl's me wife

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious
If you say it loud enough you'll always sound precocious
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious
If you say it loud enough you'll always sound precocious
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious
If you say it loud enough you'll always sound precocious
Supercalifragilistic
Supercalifragilistic
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

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axiomatic
aeolistic
rancid
sordid

mainly words beginning in a, or ending in c or d...

flabbergasted, now thats a word that I really like

Mellifluous is a lovely word.