Here's one for you wordy people

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by Tuesday wildchild, Jul 3, 2013.

  1. Tuesday wildchild

    Tuesday wildchild I'm a circle!

    The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is 'pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis'. It doesn't mean anything - it was invented in 1935, purely so it could be the longest word in the English language.
     
  2. MorkC68

    MorkC68 Administrator

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  3. A common mistake, I'm afraid.

    The longest word in the English language is "shed".
     
  4. Tuesday wildchild

    Tuesday wildchild I'm a circle!

    ?
     
  5. I thought the longest word in the English language was.....
















    Language!

    I'll get my coat.
     
  6. I think this is the longest word in the English language that actually means something?

    Floccinaucinihilipilification - to estimate something as worthless.
     
  7. Terrordales

    Terrordales Nightshift

    I've always liked Antidisestablishmentarianism
    However, it is difficult to bring it into most everyday conversations. :(
     
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  8. Moons

    Moons Supporter

    Woooooooooooooooooooooah.

    Flashback or what - bored, picking the glue between the tiles on the assembly room floor, knowing the imminent bollocking for putting a hole in school trousers again.

    Still, that was last week...
     
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  9. Terrordales

    Terrordales Nightshift

    Today I have been trying to use transubstantiation in everyday conversation & failing miserably :(
     

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