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Guest,
4 yr 353 days ago
I am an ESL teacher who has taught in many countries. I have always told my students that the longest word in the English Language is "antidisestablishmentarianism," which has to do with the idea of the separation of church and state in government. But I may have been mistaken. Thank you for some new teaching ideas for vocabulary.
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drhanson
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Wed, 08 Dec 04 02:35 PM
I was told in high school, by an english teacher that the longest word in the english dictionary is, if I can spell it correctly: antidisestablishmententarism. I've seen it once in an older dictionary, but can't recall the definition of the word. I've tried looking up the word in the online dictionaries, but can't seen to find it, probably because I have it misspelled.
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Guest,
4 yr 353 days ago
thlongest word in the dictionary is antidisestablishmentarianism and the longest word in the language is pneumonoultramicroscopicvolcanosilicovacanisis
Guest,
4 yr 353 days ago
Actually the longest word in the world is "Antidisestablishmentarienism". This word practically means those who are against the destruction of things. Kinda stupid but long.
Guest,
4 yr 353 days ago
You know that DNA would be the longest right? If it was laid out, it would have over 1,000,000,000 letters. For example, AATTGCGAATCGAGCTAGCTATCCGATCAACGGGATCGAGA. (not based on a real strand of DNA)
If you have taken Biology, or in Biology, you would understand this.
Guest,
4 yr 352 days ago
whata about the word "undisestablishmentarianism
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danver1,
4 yr 352 days ago
How about "smiles" There's a mile between the first and last letters!
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He He
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Thu, 09 Dec 04 09:38 PM
Antidisestablishmentarianism is the opposition of those who oppose the link between church and state.
You would hardly use Floccinaucinihilipilification in every every day life, you would just call something worthless.
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He He
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Thu, 09 Dec 04 09:46 PM
and also, i have copied your name for the tobacco mosaic virus into word and none of you get the right amount of letters when i use word count, it does have 1,185 though.
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