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Re: Longest Word in the World In the English Language

Anonymous — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:48:32 GMT

yo FLOCCINAUCINIHILIPILIFICATION is not the long word in the world because methylenedioxymethamphetamine is the same amount.

Re: Longest Word in the World In the English Language

Anonymous — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:11:47 GMT

yor rite

Re: Longest Word in the World In the English Language

Francesca — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:17:47 GMT

Would you mind tell us the word, Anon?

Re: Longest Word in the World In the English Language

Anonymous — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:03:15 GMT

sorrt to burst ur bubble but i have found one longer than the 3 of those words combined look it up some time its about 187,000 letters long have a look for it

Re: Longest Word in the World In the English Language

Anonymous — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 16:21:18 GMT

what ever happened tio superkalafragilisticexpialadocious?

Re: Longest Word in the World In the English Language

Anonymous — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 06:38:10 GMT

The longest is 189,819 letters long duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh bet you feel stupid now huh?

Re: Longest Word in the World In the English Language

asdf_user — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 18:19:55 GMT

Rofl im only 13 and i was looking for a word thats the longest...
is this the one that you found?
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Re: Longest Word in the World In the English Language

Moonwalker — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 05:31:19 GMT

Man That's not funny

Re: Longest Word in the World In the English Language

Anonymous — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 03:50:00 GMT

methionylglutaminylarginyltyrosylglutamylserylleucylphenylalanylalanylglutaminylleucyllysyl

glutamylarginyllysylglutamylglycylalanylphenylalanylvalylprolylphenylalanylyalylthreonylleuc

ylglycylaspartylprolylglycylisoleucylglutamylglutaminylserylleucyllysylisoleucylaspartylthreon

ylleucylisoleucylglutamylalanylglycylalanylaspartylalanylleucylglutamylleucylglycylisoleucylpr

olylphenylalanylserylaspartylprolylleucylalanylaspartylglycylprolylthreonylisoleucylglutaminyl

asparaginylalanylthreonylleucylarginylalanylphenylalanylalanylalanylglycylvalylthreonylprolyl

alanylglutaminylcysteinylphenylalanylglutamylmethionylleucyalanylleucylisoleucylarginylglut

aminyllysylhistidylprolylthreonylisoleucylprolylisoleucylglycylleucylleucylmethionyltyrosylalan

ylasparaginylleucylvalylphenylalanylasparaginyllysylglycylisoleucylaspartylglutamylphenylala

nyltyrosylalanylglutaminylcysteinylglutamyllysylvalylglycylvalylaspartylserylvalylleucylvalylal

anylaspartylvalylprolylvalylglutaminylglutamylserylalanylprolylphenylalanylarginylglutaminyl

alanylalanylleucylarginylhistidylasparaginylvalylalanylprolylisoleucylphenylalanylisoleucylcys

teinylprolylprolylaspartylalanylaspartylaspartylaspartylleucylleucylarginylglutaminylisoleucyl

alanylseryltyrosylglycylarginylglycyltyrosylthreonyltyrosylleucylleucylserylarginylalanylglycylv

alylthreonylglycylalanylglutamylasparaginylarginylalanylalanylleucylprolylleucylasparaginylhi

stidylleucylvalylalanyllysylleucyllysylglutamyltyrosylasparaginylalanylalanylprolylprolylleucyl

glutaminylglycylphenylalanylglycylisoleucylserylalanylprolylaspartylglutaminylvalyllysylalany

lalanylisoleucylaspartylalanylglycylalanylalanylglycylalanylisoleucylserylglycylserylalanylisol

eucylvalyllysylisoleucylisoleucylglutamylglutaminylhistidylasparaginylisoleucylglutamylprolyl

glutamyllysylmethionylleucylalanylalanylleucyllysylvalylphenylalanylvalylglutaminylprolylmet

hionyllysylalanylalanylthreonylarginylserine

this word is really long i found it in one of my grandpas dictionaries

Re: Longest Word in the World In the English Language

Anonymous — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 19:50:33 GMT

the longest word in the world is uuuuum oh mygod tis is garage in no it but the comp wont let me paste it onto this page any ways the longest word is like 1,185 lettersand by the way this is a twelve year old u doofs if u cant figure this out i would think that a definate 12 year old couldn't figure it out im so ashamed.

Re: Longest Word in the World In the English Language

Anonymous — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 05:01:29 GMT

i just said that to someone and their response was, "Diseases are not words, plus it's not in English; it's in Latin."
....I don't know Latin, I know English...are all words influenced by other languages considered to be "not English"...I thought English just cherry-picked what it wanted from older languages in the first place...?

Re: Longest Word in the World In the English Language

Anonymous — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 20:12:46 GMT

dear whoever you are,

i am 13 years old ad i awas reading ripley's believe it or not and there is a greek word that we use ine the english languge. we used it in the middle ages and it means: somebody that is phycic or can see the future. i don't know if it counts because it is greek, but you can always check.

your friend,

ashlee

Re: Longest Word in the World In the English Language

julielai — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 01:48:48 GMT

I don't think this is a "controversial" thread. I'm moving this to Foo.

Re: Longest Word in the World In the English Language

Jhumjhum — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 13:22:57 GMT

I think this topic has been discussed several times in this forum

The longest word in the world

Longestword in the English dictionary

Worlds longest words and names

Longest Word in the World In the English Language

Anonymous — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 04:02:50 GMT

I saw a very long thread about this topic, and I wanted to set the record completely straight. You will notice that I mentioned ENGLISH LANGUAGE in the subject. Unless someone can give us a reliable definition for the extremely long finnish word I believe we should refrain from discussing it.

The main debate appears to be whether PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS is a legitimate word, as it was coined simply to make a new longest word but has a real definition. Many have said that FLOCCINAUCINIHILIPILIFICATION is the longest REAL word, because of previously stated complication with PNEU..., which is described as "factitious", meaning artificial. However, it appears in four respectable dictionaries and as I have said, has a real definition. Because it is "real" enough to be actually used in conversation (although maybe only at medical colleges) I believe it has enough status to be considered a real word, and thus, the longest word in the english language.

Chemical names should be thrown out of the question. Seeing as they are basically combinations of many different amino acids, proteins, enzymes and the like, they are not really words but more letter combinations.

Antidisestablishmentarianism is a word commonly cited as an example of the longest english word. However, it is shorter than FLOCCI... or PNEUM... which obviously makes it NOT the longest.

Some say smiles is the longest because there is a mile between each S. Also, Someone suggested beleaguered, because a league is longer than a mile. Both are true and interesting interpretations (thank you very much to all of those who suggested these), but the thread was asking for longest by letter count, so neither of these count (yes, I may be too thorough).

A very interesting link to a page about many of the vowel, syllable, etc. debate, as I do not want to bother with them, is: http://www.fun-with-words.com/word_vowels.html

So there you have it. I hope this is definitive as to the longest word in the english language. Feel free to post back, but please give me a sensible response, and this discussion is NOT about place names, foreign words, or chemical names, so do not use those.

Thank you