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This is kinda neat.
For most of us talking comes pretty easy. If we think of something, we say it. Concepts considered in our mind become words spoken by our mouth. However, not every word is easy to say. Some are difficult to say because hey, they’re difficult to say. Take for instance pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis (a lung disease caused by breathing in certain particles). Not only is it considered, at 45 letters, the longest word in any English-language dictionary, it’s nearly impossible to pronounce. Oxford.com has some genuine (if rather obviously deliberate) examples in their files of antidisestablishmentarianism (28 letters) and floccinaucinihilipilification (29 letters), which are listed in some of their larger dictionaries. Other words (mainly technical ones) recorded in the complete Oxford English Dictionary include: otorhinolaryngological (22 letters), immunoelectrophoretically (25 letters), psychophysicotherapeutics (25 letters), thyroparathyroidectomized (25 letters), pneumoencephalographically (26 letters), radioimmunoelectrophoresis (26 letters), psychoneuroendocrinological (27 letters) hepaticocholangiogastrostomy (28 letters), spectrophotofluorometrically (28 letters), pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism (30 letters). Most of the words which are given as 'the longest word' are merely inventions, and when they occur it is almost always as examples of long words, rather than as genuine examples of use. For example, the medieval Latin word honorificabilitudinitas (honourableness) was listed by some old dictionaries in the English form honorificabilitudinity (22 letters), but it has never really been in use. The longest word currently listed in Oxford dictionaries is the supposed lung-disease pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (45 letters). Research has discovered that pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis was originally intended as a hoax. It has since been used in a close approximation of its originally intended meaning, lending at least some degree of validity to its claim. The Oxford English Dictionary contains pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism (30 letters). Some editions of the Guinness Book of Records mention praetertranssubstantiationalistically (37 letters), used in Mark McShane's Untimely Ripped (1963), and aequeosalinocalcalinoceraceoaluminosocupreovitriolic (52 letters), attributed to Dr Edward Strother (1675-1737). Neat stuff |
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I have enough trouble pronouncing some words...those would be impossible
for me |
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WHERE DID YOU THINK OF THAT SUBJECT FROM. I'M NOT EVEN GOING TO TRY TO
SAY THOSE WORDS. YOUR CRAZY |
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