Words, Puns, and Jokes

Re: World's longest English words and names

Grammar Geek — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:12:17 GMT

Taking a bunch of proteins and stringing them together does NOT make an English "word." This thread has far outlived its usefulness as an actual discussion of long words that people could use in a conversation and not in medical research.

Re: World's longest English words and names

Anonymous — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:07:02 GMT

here`s something that`ll really really stun you!

it`s a 1185-letter word..

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p.s. if you want a REAL tongue twister or a challenge, well this one`s for you!

Re: World's longest English words and names

Anonymous — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 19:35:12 GMT

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis may be 5th but it does not tie with supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (45 Letters) VS. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (34 Letters)

Re: WOWIE

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 03:26:41 GMT

Anonymous wrote:

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

11:43:08 AM

Monday, March 12, 2007 frick thats hard*&^%$#@!!!!!!!!!

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WOWIE

Anonymous — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 17:43:53 GMT

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

11:43:08 AM

Monday, March 12, 2007

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Re: World's longest English words and names

Anonymous — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 01:57:07 GMT

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!!

Re: World's longest English words and names

Anonymous — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 04:56:33 GMT

Gosh.. long words. @_@

Re: World's longest English words and names

Anonymous — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 16:44:18 GMT

Omg, LONG LiSt LOng LisT

Re: World's longest English words and names

Anonymous — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 01:05:19 GMT

ya except a lot of those really long ones could be made up or not tecnically words, just words accepted by society

Re: World's longest English words and names

Guest — Sat, 20 Nov 2004 09:32:18 GMT

i second that, if you really want to get official it's Maaori or MÃ£ori.

good to know this stuff though, i'm working on pronouncing that first one...
-Zell

Re: World's longest English words and names

Guest — Wed, 08 Sep 2004 09:44:03 GMT

"Mauri, hill in New Zealand"

Maori. Maori hill in New Zealand, not Mauri.

Re: World's longest English words and names

Eddie L. — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 02:42:05 GMT

Hey, cool, that is the same book I used to post ornicopy-----. I try to get the book every year.

World's longest English words and names

Guest — Sat, 31 Jan 2004 07:37:21 GMT

(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.