The longest word in the world
When we say “The longest word in the world” the first word that comes up in our mind is the “Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis” or the disease caused by silica dust. But when we say “In the world” we are not just talking about the English Language, so technically we would need to consider all field of knowledge and language such as words from mathematics, science, physics, astronomy and all other words.
The chemical name of Titin which is the largest known protein has 189,819 letters and it’s just one (1) word. And this is the longest word in the world, so you might ask why it is not in the dictionary? Some lexicographer does not consider a chemical name as a word. That’s why it is not included in the list of official words in the English Language.
Link to the whole word: http://pastebin.com/puXj3GpJ
Did you know? Nagsisipagsisinungasinungalingan is the longest tagalong word.
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how 'bout the supercalifragilisticexpialidocious?
ReplyDeletepneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is still longer than that.
Deletehow about the " dog"
ReplyDelete2nd longest word. LOL
DeleteI thought the word "smiles" was the longest word. It has a mile between the two "S"s
ReplyDeleteLOL