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What is the longest word in English?
14 jul. 2010 15:23
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smiles .. because, mile between the two s ~~ just a funny joke
14 juli 2010
The four longest word that could be found in a dictionary are:
Antidisestablishmentarianism with 28 letters and 12 syllables. It is a noncoined and nontechnical word,
Floccinaucinihihilipipification with 29 letters and 12 syllables. Coined and longest nontechnical word
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious with 34 letters and 14 syllables. A coined word in the song Mary Poppins, and
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoc… with 45 letters and 19 syllables. It is the longest word found in a major dictionary.
14 juli 2010
Antidisestablishmentarianism. Or Supercallifragilisticexpiallidocious, but that's not really a word. And whatever the word in the answer just above is, I have no idea if it exists, because I've never heard of a word that long that isn't Welsh.
14 juli 2010
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14 juli 2010
I vote for the word: "Antidisestablishmentarianism"
There are other words that are longer, but most of them are "coined phrases". But I think "Antidisestablishmentarianism" is the longest "real" english word I've heard of.
14 juli 2010
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