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Asked by elmo97 to Andrew, Marianne on 24 Jun 2010 in Categories: About.
Question: What is the longest word you know?
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anon answered on 24 Jun 2010:
antidisestablishmentarianism. Didn’t look it up so may have misspelt/misremembered it.
How about you?
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Andrew Maynard answered on 24 Jun 2010:
Hi elmo97,
I have a question for you – how many questions can a sane person ask?!
Easy answer – antidisestablishmentarianism (unless you include some of those long names of chemicals that chemists make up!)
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Marianne Baker answered on 24 Jun 2010:
floccinoccinihilipilipification
And I didn’t look that up so it might be wrong 😉
Before that it was antidisestablishmentarianism, I believe – at least, in English!
Comments
babybel commented on :
…. Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
Win!
andrewleitch commented on :
Well done babybel. Though it is a pointless word coined to be the longest word. I’ve actually met people with silicosis and i don’t think they’d thank you for this enormous name (they have difficulty completing sentences sometimes because of their trouble breathing.
Still a win’s a win. Congrats and fair play etc….
Andrew commented on :
Well done!
Can you pronounce it by the way?
elmo97 commented on :
I can pronounce babybels word!