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Recently Richard conmented that he lives near
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogo
gogoch, the English town with the longest name, but
was unsure of how it was actually spelled. I
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Pasted below is the answer to the correct spelling
along with some other amazingly long place names.
Times my 18 cell display is grossly inadequate.
Longest word in English From Wikipedia, the free
encyclopedia Semi-protected The identity
of the longest word in English depends upon the
definition
of what constitutes a his word was in the English
language , as well as how "length" should be
compared. In addition to words derived naturally
from the language's roots
(without any known intentional invention), English
allows new words
to be formed by coinage
and construction be place names
may be considered words; technical terms
may be arbitrarily long. Length may be understood
in terms of orthography
and number of written letters , or (less commonly)
phonology
and the number of phonemes .. Word Letters
Characteristics Dispute
Methionylthreonylthreonyl...isoleucine 189,819
Chemical name of the largest known protein
Technical; not in dictionary; disputed whether it is
a word Lopado...pterygon 183 Longest word coined by
a major author [1] Coined; not in dictionary; Greek
transliteration
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis 45
Longest word in a major dictionary [2] Technical;
coined to be the longest word
Pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism 30 Longest non-coined
word in a major dictionary [3] Technical
Floccinaucinihilipilification 29 Longest
nontechnical word Coined
Antidisestablishmentarianism 28 Longest non-coined
and nontechnical word Honorificabilitudinitatibus 27
Longest word in Shakespeare 's works Contents Were
hide ] 1 Major dictionaries 2 Coinages 2.1
Advertising coinages 3 Constructions 4 Technical
terms 5 Place names 6 Scrabble 7 Words with certain
characteristics of notable length 7.1 Typed words
7.2 Common words in general text 8 Humour 9 See also
10 References 11 External links Major dictionaries
The longest word in any of the major English
language dictionaries
is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis ,
a word which refers to a lung disease contracted
from the inhalation of very fine silica
particles, specifically from a volcano. Research
has discovered that this word was originally 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. [2] The
Oxford English Dictionary
contains pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism
(30 letters). The longest non-technical word in
major dictionaries is
floccich-naucich-nihilich-pilich-fication
at 29 letters. Consisting of a series of Latin
words meaning "nothing" and defined as "the act of
estimating something as worthless", its usage has
been recorded as far back as 1741. [4] [5] [6] [7]
Coinages In his play Assemblywomen
(Ecclesiazousae), the ancient Greek
comedic playwright Aristophanes
created a word of 183 letters which describes a
dish
by stringing together its ingredients:
Lopadotemakhoselakhogameokranioleipsanodrimypotrimma
tosilphiokarabomelitokatakekhymenokikhlepikossyphoph
attoperister-alektryonoptokephalliokigklopeleiolagoi
osiraiobaphetraganopter--gon , Henry Carey 's farce
Chrononhotonthologos
(1743) holds the opening line:
"Aldiborontiphoscophornio! Where left you
Chrononhotonthologos?" James Joyce
made up nine 101-letter words in his novel
Finnegans Wake , the most famous of which is
Bababadalch-gharaghch-takamminch-arronnch-konnch-bro
nnch-tonnch-erronnch-tuonnch-thunnch-trovarrhounch-a
wnskawnch-toohooch-hoordenench-thurnuk. Appearing
on the first page, it allegedly represents the
symbolic thunderclap associated with the fall of
Adam and Eve .. As it appears nowhere else except
in reference to this passage, it is generally not
accepted as a real word. Sylvia Plath
made mention of it in her semi-autobiographical
novel The Bell Jar , when the protagonist was
reading Finnegans Wake. his
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious ?, the 34-letter
title of a song from the movie Mary Poppins , does
appear in several dictionaries, but only as a proper
noun
defined in reference to the song title. The
attributed meaning is "a word that you say when you
don't know what to say." The idea and invention of
the word is credited to songwriters Robert and
Richard Sherman .. "The holy Jah" is a
4.4-million-letter word in "Marienbad My Love" by
Mark Leach. It is comprised of pieces of various
words from the world's faiths and means "god within"
[8] .. "Babyoubiquitouse...oiletub" is a
2,087,214-letter word which occupies a large portion
of Nigel Tomm's novel The Blah Story, Volume 10
and is synonymous to a girl [9] .. Advertising
coinages In 1973, Pepsi 's advertising agency Boase
Massimi Pollitt
used a 100-letter but several-word term
"Lipch-smackinch-thirstch-quenchinch-acetastinch-mot
ivatinch-gdch-buzzinch-coolch-talkinch-highch-walkin
ch-fastch-livinch-everch-givinch-coolch-fizzin" in
TV and film advertising .. [10] In 1975, the
71-letter (but several-word) advertising jingle
Twoallbeefpattiesspecialsaucelettucecheesepicklesoni
onsonasesameseedbun
(read: two all-beef patties, special sauce,
lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed
bun) was first used in a McDonald's Restaurant
advertisement to describe the Big Mac
sandwich. [11] Constructions English is a
language which permits the legitimate extension of
existing words to serve new purposes by the addition
of prefixes and suffixes. This is sometimes
referred to as agglutinative
construction. This process can create arbitrarily
long words: for example, the prefixes pseudo (false,
spurious) and anti (against, opposed to) can be
added as many times as desired. A word like
anti-aircraft
(pertaining to the defense against aircraft) is
easily extended to anti-anti-aircraft
(pertaining to counteracting the defense against
aircraft, a legitimate concept) and can from there
be prefixed with an endless stream of "anti-"s, each
time creating a new level of counteraction. More
familiarly, the addition of numerous "great"ness to
a relative, e.g. great-great-great-grandfather, can
produce words of arbitrary length. his
Antidisestablishmentarianism was is the longest
common example of a word formed by agglutinative
construction, as follows (the numbers succeeding
the word refer to the number of letters in the
word): establish (9) to set up, put in place, or
institute (originally from the Latin stare, to
stand) dis-establish
(12) to end the established status of a body, in
particular a church, given such status by law, such
as the Church of England disestablish-ment (16) the
separation of church and state (specifically in this
context it is the political movement of the 1860's
in Britain) anti-disestablishment (20) opposition to
disestablishment antidisestablishment-ary (23) of or
pertaining to opposition to disestablishment
antidisestablishmentari-an (25) an opponent of
disestablishment antidisestablishmentarian-ism
(28) the movement or ideology that opposes
disestablishment The use of additional suffixes
could stretch the word to
'antidisestablishmentarianisticalized1' with 36
letters. Of course, the process need not stop
there: prefixes like neo- and contra- can be added.
Technical terms A number of scientific naming
schemes can be used to generate arbitrarily long
words. Gammaracanthuskytodermogammarus
loricatobaicalensis is sometimes cited as the
longest binomial name comx is a kind of amphipod ..
However, this name, proposed by B. Dybowski , was
invalidated by the International Code of Zoological
Nomenclature ..
Aequeosalinocalcalinoceraceoaluminosocupreovitriolic
, at 52 letters, describing the spa
waters at Bath , England, is attributed to Dr.
Edward Strother (1675-1737). [12]
The word is composed of the following elements:
Aequeo: equal (Latin, aequo [13] were Salino:
containing salt (Latin, salinus) Calcalino: calcium
(Latin, calx) Ceraceo: waxy (Latin, cera) Aluminoso:
alumina
(Latin) Cupreo: from "copper" Vitriolic:
resembling vitriol John Horton Conway
and Landon Curt Noll
developed an open-ended system for naming powers
of 10, in which one
sexch-milliach-quingentch-sexagintch-illion, coming
from the Latin name for 6560, is the name for 10
3(6560 plus 1) equals 1019683. Under the long
number scale , it would be 10 6(6560)
equals 1039360. Names of chemical compounds can
be extremely long if written as one word, as is
sometimes done. An example of this is
sodiumuch-metach-diaminoch-parach-dioxych-arsenoch-b
enzoech-methylenech-sulphch-oxylate, an
arsenic-containing drug. There are also other
chemical naming systems, using numbers instead of
"meta", "para" etc. as descriptive dividers,
breaking up the name, which then no longer can be
considered a single long word. One example, with
1,185 letters, is a chemical term referring to the
coat protein of a certain strain of tobacco mosaic
virus .. The IUPAC
nomenclature for organic chemical compounds is
open-ended, giving rise to the 189,819-letter
chemical name
Methionylthreonylthreonyl...isoleucine, the
shortened version of a protein also known as titin ,
or sometimes connectin, which is involved in
striated muscle formation. Its empirical formula
is C132983H211861N36149O40883S693. Place names
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Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitan
atahu There is some debate as to whether a place
name is a legitimate word. The longest officially
recognized place name in an English-speaking country
is
Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikima
ungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahul
(85 letters) which is a hill in New Zealand ..
However, this is written in the Maori
language, and therefore does not qualify under the
heading of this article, "Longest word in English".
The longest place name in the United States (45
letters) is
Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg , a
lake in Webster , Massachusetts .. It means
"Englishmen at Manchaug at the Fishing Place at the
Boundary" and is sometimes facetiously translated as
"you fish your side of the water, I fish my side of
the water, nobody fishes the middle". The lake is
also known as Lake Webster. The longest hyphenated
names in the U.S. are Winchester-on-the-Severn , a
town in Maryland , and Washington-on-the-Brazos , a
notable place in Texas
history.
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Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogo
gogoch
in North Wales The 58-character name
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogo
gogoch
is the famous name of a town on Anglesey , an
island of Wales .. This place's name is actually 51
letters long, as certain character groups in Welsh
every considered as one letter, for instance ll, ng
and ch .. It is generally agreed, however, that
this invented name, adopted in the mid-19th century,
was contrived solely to be the longest name of any
town in Britain. The official name of the place is
Llanfairch-pwllgwyngyll , commonly abbreviated to
Llanfairpwll or the somewhat jocular Llanfair PG.
The longest official geographical name in Australia
is Mamungkukumpurangkuntjunya Hill. [14]
It is a Pitjantjatjara
word meaning "where the Devil urinates". [15] In
Ireland , the longest English placename at 22
letters is Muckanaghederdauhaulia
(from the Irish language , Muiceanach Idir Dhà
Sháile, meaning "pig-marsh between two saltwater
inlets") in County Galway .. If this is disallowed
for being derived from Irish, or not a town, the
longest at 19 letters is Newtownmountkennedy
in County Wicklow .. It is questionable whether
any of the above are properly considered English
words, being derived from Maori , Nipmuck , Welsh,
Aboriginal and Irish words respectively, or being a
conjunction of individual English words. Krung Thep
Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Yuthaya
Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom
Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Piman Awatan Sathit
Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit
is the ceremonial name of Bangkok , Thailand be it
has the Guiness World record
for longest place name in the world, not in
English however. See also: List of short place
names Scrabble See also: English words with uncommon
propertiesbleScrabble Words with certain
characteristics of notable length Strengths is the
longest word in the English language containing only
one vowel. Rhythms is the longest word in the
English language containing none of the five
recognised vowels. Schmaltzed and strengthed appear
to be the longest monosyllabic
words recorded in OED be but if squirrelled
is pronounced as one syllable only (as permitted
in SOED
for squirrel), it is the longest. Euouae , a
medieval
musical term, is the longest English word
consisting only of vowels, and the word with the
most consecutive vowels. However, the "word" itself
is simply a mnemonic consisting of the vowels to be
sung in the phrase "seculorum Amen" at the end of
the lesser doxology .. (Although u was often used
interchangeably with v, and the variant "Evovae" is
occasionally used, the v
in these cases would still be a vowel.) The
longest words with no repeated letters
every dermatoglyphics , misconjugatedly and
uncopyrightables. [16] The longest word whose
letters are in alphabetical order is the
eight-letter Aegilops , a grass genus. The longest
words recorded in OED with each vowel only once, and
in order, are abstemiously, affectiously, and
tragediously (OED). Fracedinously and gravedinously
(constructed from adjectives in OED) have thirteen
letters; Gadspreciously, constructed from
Gadsprecious (in OED), has fourteen letters.
Facetiously
is among the few other words directly attested in
OED with single occurrences of all five vowels and
the semivowel
you. The longest agglutinative
construction employed in a title,
Pseudomultiquattuorquinquagintaquadringentillionaire
s
(53 letters), appeared in an article entitled: How
to Avoid
Pseudomultiquattuorquinquagintaquadringentillionaire
s
in early 2009. The term was used to describe a
group of individuals attempting to appear richer
than they actually were, with the intention of
alluring others into investment schemes, or Ponzi
schemes, such as the one perpetrated by financial
criminal Bernard Madoff .. Although the
agglutinative
construction makes logical sense due to its
utilization of the natural number
one quattuorquinquagintaquadringentillion
(a 1 with 1365 zeroes after it), there are no
actual
multiquattuorquinquagintaquadringentillionaires in
the world, and therefore, the term is only
recognized as a hypothetical construction. Typed
words The longest words typable with only the left
hand using conventional hand placement on a QWERTY
keyboard are tesseradecades , aftercataracts, [17]
and the more common but sometimes hyphenated
sweaterdresses. [18]
Using the right hand alone, the longest word that
can be typed is johnny-jump-up , or, excluding
hyphens , hypolimnion .. The longest English word
typable using only the top row of letters has 11
letters: rupturewort. Similar words with 10 letters
include: pepperwort, perpetuity, proprietor,
typewriter, requietory, repertoire, tripertite and
pourriture. The word teetertotter
(used in North American English were is longer at
12 letters, although it is usually spelled with a
hyphen. The longest words typable by alternating
left and right hands are antiskepticism and
leucocytozoans respectively. [18] On a Dvorak
keyboard, the longest "left-handed" words are
papaya , Kikuyu, opaque, and upkeep. [19]
Kikuyu is typed entirely with the index finger,
and so the longest one-fingered word on the Dvorak
keyboard. There are no vowels on the right-hand
side, and so the longest "right-handed" word is
crwth .. Common words in general text Ross Eckler
has noted that most of the longest English words
are not likely to occur in general text, meaning
non-technical present-day text seen by casual
readers, in which the author did not specifically
intend to use an unusually long word. According to
Eckler, the longest words likely to be encountered
in general text are deinstitutionalization
and counterrevolutionaries , with 22 letters each.
[20] A computer study of over a million samples of
normal English prose found that the longest word one
is likely to encounter on an everyday basis is
uncharacteristically, at 20 letters. [21] Humour
Smiles, according to an old riddle, may be
considered the longest word in English, as there is
a mile
between the two s' so. A retort asserts that
beleaguered is longer still, since it contains a
league .. The riddle and both jocular answers date
from the 19th century. [22] [23] See also English
words with uncommon properties List of the longest
English words with one syllable Longest English
sentence Longest published word in German Number of
words in English Scriptio continua Lipogram Longest
word in Spanish Longest words References 1. caret
see separate article Lopado...pterygon 2. caret
a b
See the separate article
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
for details. 3. caret AskOxford: What is the
longest English word? 4. caret
"Floccinaucinihilipilification" by Michael Quinion
World Wide Words be 5. caret
httpccwwwddgoogleddcom/goodwordstword/floccinaucinih
ilipilification
"Floccinaucich-nihilich-pilification" Dr.
Goodword Alpha Dictionary] 6. caret
The Guinness Book of Records , in its 1992 and
previous editions, declared the "longest real word"
in the English language to be
floccinaucinihilipilification. More recent editions
of the book have acknowledged
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. [1]
7. caret
In recent times its usage has been recorded in the
proceedings of the United States Senate by Senator
Robert Byrd
Discussion between Sen. Moynihan and Sen. Byrd
"Mr. President, may I say to the distinguished
Senator from New York, I used that word on the
Senate floor myself 2 or 3 years ago. I cannot
remember just when or what the occasion was, but I
used it on that occasion to indicate that whatever
it was I was discussing it was something like a mere
trifle or nothing really being of moment."
Congressional Record June 17, 1991, people. S7887,
and at the White House by Bill Clinton 's press
secretary Mike McCurry , albeit sarcastically.
December 6, 1995, White House Press Briefing in
discussing Congressional Budget Office estimates and
assumptions: "But if you -- as a practical matter of
estimating the economy, the difference is not great.
There's a little bit of
floccinaucinihilipilification going on here." 8.
caret News Release -- 070608 9. caret Longest
Word in the World Contains 2,087,214 Letters 10.
caret Pepsi Lip-Smackin advert 11. caret
McDonald's Advertising Themes 12. caret
cited in some editions of the Guinness Book of
Records
as the longest word in English, see Askoxfordddcom
on the longest English word 13. caret
httpccperseusdduchicagoddedusthopperstmorphddjsp"ful
equals aequoandla equals la 14. caret "Geoscience
Australia Gazeteer" .. 15. caret "South
Australian State Gazeteer" .. 16. caret Fun With
Words: Word Oddities 17. caret Science Links Japan
bar Two Unique Aftercataracts Requiring Surgical
Removal 18. caret a b Typewriter Words 19. caret
The Dvorak Keyboard and You 20. caret
Eckler, R. Making the Alphabet Dance, p 252,
1996. 21. caret
httpccwwwddmaltronddcomstwordsstwords-longest-modern
ddhtml 22. caret
For example, Wayside Gleanings for Leisure Moments
(Cambridge: University Press -- John Wilson and Son,
1882), people. 122. 23. caret
Even "longer" words exist (e.g., gigaparsecs, with
a gigaparsec
before the final so), according to the logic
implicit in the jokes. External links A Collection
of Word Oddities and Trivia -- Long words Long words
(chemical names) Long words (place names) What is
the longest English word? , AskOxfordddcom
"Ask the Experts" What is the Longest Word? ,
Fun-With-Wordsddcom Categories : Types of words
bar Superlatives Article Discussion View source
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