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Guest  #61207  Mon, 13 Dec 04 08:36 PM
I believe it was in the movie "Mary Poppins" where Dick Van Dyke sang out " supercalifragilisticexpialidocious"Wink [;)] orWink [;)]
  
maverick88  #61284  Tue, 14 Dec 04 12:39 AM
No.
The longest is a word from biology that consists of about 1900 letters, though it doesn't appear in dictionaries (think whySmile [:)] )
There is another word that was found is one of the Shakespeare's books and consists of 45 letters. I will wonder if it appears in any dictionary as well as the first one.
There is another word that does appear in dictionaries - 27 letters, as far as I remember, though yours word is 34 letters (and doesn't appear in my dictionary)
  
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Guest  #61300  Tue, 14 Dec 04 01:44 AM
YES, THE LAST POST WAS CORRECT. IT'S A MEDICAL TERM AND HAS OVER 1900 LETTERS IN IT. I ALWAY'S THOUGHT IT WAS THE SUPERCALA FRA---- OR ANTIDISISSTAPLIMENTIMTERRIAISM OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
  
Anonymous  #203679  Mon, 06 Mar 06 01:37 PM

 Maverick88 wrote:
No.
The longest is a word from biology that consists of about 1900 letters, though it doesn't appear in dictionaries (think whySmile [:)] )
There is another word that was found is one of the Shakespeare's books and consists of 45 letters. I will wonder if it appears in any dictionary as well as the first one.
There is another word that does appear in dictionaries - 27 letters, as far as I remember, though yours word is 34 letters (and doesn't appear in my dictionary)

where is this 1900 letter word
  
Anonymous  #344361  Wed, 28 Mar 07 01:10 AM

supercalifragilisticexpialidocious is not a real word,but it is jibberish a real word that is about that long is antidistestablishmentarianism, which has three less letters. Stick out tongue [:P]
  
WYVRN92  #433269  Mon, 22 Oct 07 06:19 AM
The Longest word in the english langege is the the full chemical name for the protien Titin, its full chemical name contains 189,819 Surprise [:O] letters (look it up on Wikipedia if you don't belive me, don't try a dictionary, it won't be in there) here is the link to where I found it out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_word_in_English
  
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Anonymous  #433294  Mon, 22 Oct 07 08:15 AM

 Maverick88 wrote:
No.
The longest is a word from biology that consists of about 1900 letters, though it doesn't appear in dictionaries (think whySmile [:)] )
There is another word that was found is one of the Shakespeare's books and consists of 45 letters. I will wonder if it appears in any dictionary as well as the first one.
There is another word that does appear in dictionaries - 27 letters, as far as I remember, though yours word is 34 letters (and doesn't appear in my dictionary)

Rumor has it that smiles is the longest word. Could you figure it out?
  
Neeraj Jain  #433388  Mon, 22 Oct 07 02:37 PM
According to Wikipedia, pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is the longest word to appear in an English dictionary.
  
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Anonymous  #448547  Sat, 01 Dec 07 03:11 PM
It is difficult to argue what the longest word is. It all depends on what you concider a word. There is a protein with over 189,819 letters and a medical term with 183 letters. Longest place name = 85. Coined word = 45. Non-coined = 30. Nontechnical = 29.
  
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