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Latest post Tue, Jan 15 2008 1:12 PM by Grammar Geek. 12 replies.
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Guest  +  20917 Sat, 31 Jan 04 07:37 AM
(I registered but didn't seem to accept my pw.) I got this from a top 10 book of 2002 It's at school so I can't get the exact meaning and all of them for now but here's the longest word not name it said: >.) Ornicopytheobibliopsychocrystarroscioaerogenethliometeoroaustrohieroanothropoichthyopyrosider- ochpnomyoalectryoophiobotanopegohydrorhabdocrithoaleuroalphitohalomolybdoclerobeloaxinocoscino- dactyliogeolithonpessopsephrocatoptrotephraoneirochoonychodactyloarithstichooxogeloscogastro- gyrocerobletonooenoscapulinaniac Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis comes in at 5 if I remember right tied with supercala..... don't know how to spell it.

Then names I was stunned at these names, I took the reallllly weird ones not all of them:

1.) (This one was split up for some reason.)

Krung thep mahankhan bovern mahihtharayutthaya mahadilok pop noparatratchathani burirom udomratchanivetmasathan amornpiman avatarnsathit sakkathattiyavisnukarmprasit

This is a poetic name of Bangkok, Thailand I believe.

2.) Taumatawhakatangihangakoauaubtamateaturipukakapikimanungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahn

Mauri, hill in New Zealand

3.) Gorsafawddqchaidraigddanheddogleddollonpenrhynareurdreathceredigion

Fairbourne steam railway, Gwyneed, North Wales.

4.) Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrndrobwllllanstysiliogogogoch

Place named for the length of it's tickets by Gwynedd.

6.) Chargoggagoggmanchaugagoggchaubunagangamang

A lake near Webster, Massachusetts a Indian name.
Eddie L.  +  20984 Sun, 01 Feb 04 02:42 AM
Hey, cool, that is the same book I used to post ornicopy-----. I try to get the book every year.
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Guest, 5 yr 61 days ago
"Mauri, hill in New Zealand"

Maori. Maori hill in New Zealand, not Mauri.
Guest, 4 yr 353 days ago
i second that, if you really want to get official it's Maaori or Mãori.

good to know this stuff though, i'm working on pronouncing that first one...
-Zell
Anonymous, 4 yr 104 days ago
ya except a lot of those really long ones could be made up or not tecnically words, just words accepted by society
Anonymous, 3 yr 334 days ago
Omg, LONG LiSt LOng LisT
Anonymous, 3 yr 33 days ago
Gosh.. long words. @_@
Anonymous, 3 yr 5 days ago
Ornicopytheobibliopsychocrystarroscioaerogenethliometeoroaustrohieroanothropoichthyopyrosiderochpnomyo-
alectryoophiobotanopegohydrorhabdocrithoaleuroalphitohalomolybdoclerobeloaxinocoscinodactyliogeolithon-
pessopsephrocatoptrotephraoneirochoonychodactyloarithstichooxogeloscogastrogyrocerobletonooenoscapulinaniac

.....gosh...i thought it was a made up word...how doyou even say it?? if we have a compeitiong i will definitly....win!!
Anonymous, 2 yr 241 days ago

That is a really long word wow how do u say it?

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