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The longest word in the Engish dictionary is said to be
"floccinaucinihilipilification" which simply means estimating something as worthless.

Another interesting one :
"cryptovestimentacyclofuromania"
a mania for stealing intimate garments!!

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From the net:

pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism
pneumomonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
æqueosalinocalcalinocereceoaluminosocupreovitriolic

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Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch is the Longest place name in the UK (Its in Wales)

The longest place name in the world is:

Krungthep Mahanakhon Bovorn Ratanakosin Mahintharayutthaya Mahadilokpop Noparatratchathani Burirom Udomratchanivet Mahasathan Amornpiman Avatarnsathit Sakkathattiyavisnukarmprasit

Otherwise known as Bangkok.

The longest word currently listed in Oxford dictionaries is:  

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (45 letters).

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And I thought Lake Webster was a long one:
Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg

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The people that make up these names have waaaayyyyy too much time.

Chris
Systems Analyst, I.S.
SolidWorks/PDMWorks 05
AutoCAD 05
ctopher's home site (updated 06-21-05)
FAQ559-1100
FAQ559-716

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The longest sentence in the english language is

" I Do "

"If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut."
-- by Albert Einstein

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To printcar, what about I am ?

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25362,

I think you missed the joke - are you married?

Edward L. Klein
Pipe Stress Engineer
Houston, Texas

"All the world is a Spring"

All opinions expressed here are my own and not my company's.

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My favourite long placename is the one used in a song called "The Lone Ranger", by a band called "Quantum Jump":

Taumatawhakatangihangakoayauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoro
nukypokaiwhenuakitanatahu

(I used to be able to say it too!)

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Interesting...especially since I put out a similar thread in my company's email several months ago.  (Don't ask...I was bored and got on dictionary.com...)  Here's a copy of what I sent out:

Someday you might need to use one of these words:

a light-hearted mood word:  supercalifragilisticexpialidocious - a nonsense word meaning fantastic
a disease:  pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis - a factitious word alleged to mean 'a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust'  
a medical condition:  PSEUDOPSEUDOHYPOPARATHYROIDISM - a familial disorder in which the skeletal and developmental abnormalities of pseudohypoparathyroidism are present without the biochemical abnormalities common to hypoparathyroidism and pseudohypoparathyroidism (yeah...right...say that fast 3 times!)
a place:   Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch - a village in Wales
a movement:  antidisestablishmentarianism - opposition to the disestablishment of the Church of England
a judgment:  floccinaucinihilipilification - an act or instance of judging something to be worthless or trivial
a state of being:  honorificabilitudinitatibus - the state of being able to achieve honors
a chemical:  FORMALDEHYDETETRAMETHYLAMIDOFLUORIMUM
a medical procedure:  HEPATICOCHOLANGIOCHOLECYSTENTEROSTOMIES -surgical creation of a connection between the gall bladder and a hepatic duct and between the intestine and the gall bladder
foreign word #1:    from Machiguenga, IRAPUSATINKAATSEMPOKITASANOIGAVETAPAAKEMPAROROKARITYO - meaning "They will probably really go head over heels into the water when they arrive but not stay that way"
foreign word #2:    from Russian, VODOGRYAZETORPHOPARAPHINOLECHENIE - meaning, "a medical treatment with use of water, ooze, peat and paraffin"
foreign word #3:    from the Dutch, ZANDZEEPSODEMINERAALWATERSTEENSTRALEN  - meaning, "to 'take a hike' or to 'p*** off' "
foreign word #4:    from Germany, RECHTSSCHUTZVERSICHERUNGSGESELLSCHAFTEN - meaning, "insurance companies which provide legal protection."   
Lastly:

methionylglutaminylarginyltyrosylglut...arginylserine
- WHICH IS A 1,913-letter chemical name for tryptophan synthetase A protein, an enzyme consisting 267 amino acids

But remember, SMILES is supposed to be the longest word in the dictionary because "there's a mile between the two S's."

And, according to Red Skelton, the longest word is the word that follows the announcement, "And now a word from our sponsor"!

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WHEW!!!

And believe me, out of all those, I really don't want to know what a medical treatment with use of water, ooze, peat and paraffin from Russian is used to treat.

~NiM

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Quote:

methionylglutaminylarginyltyrosylglutamylser...reonylarginylserine

Who in their right mind would try and say that????

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Next thing you know, we'll have to start refering to ourselves by our particular DNA sequence.  Now that will be a mouthful.

Edward L. Klein
Pipe Stress Engineer
Houston, Texas

"All the world is a Spring"

All opinions expressed here are my own and not my company's.

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ctopher almost got it right, but it is the megasyllabiclexicophile posters with way too much time on their hands.
For the sake of engineering, I advise the politically incorrect action of disabling the cut-and-paste feature of their browsers.

Now, a truly significant 'Did you know' engineering item:
The longest free fall of an automobile in history was that of a 1974 Dodge Monaco ex-police car with "cop tires, cop suspension and cop [440 cubic-inch] motor" which was driven by Elwood Blues off an unfinished  bridge in Milwaukee and landed 120 miles south in downtown Chicago. The feat was shortly thereafter unsuccessfully attempted by Illinois Nazis driving a Ford Pinto [well, maybe the falling part was successful].  The driving “was all real.” -- Chicago Sun-Times.  http://www.suntimes.com/special_sections/bluebros/cst-nws-bbcarchase23.html

The tall white building in the Milwaukee background is the First Wisconsin Bank (now US Bank), which was (may still be) the tallest building in Wisconsin.  The I-794 bridge, sometimes erroneously called 'The Bridge to Nowhere,” was unfinished for years, then torn down and a different design used to connect with the true “Nowhere” Harbor Bridge [apologies to anyone from Nowhere aka. St. Francis]; the characteristic feature being that if crossed southbound, one's primary option was to re-cross northbound (a trap for Illinoisans attempting to return home from Summerfest!).

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My bad.  Recently viewed evidence on AMC indicates that the Bluesmobile narrowly avoided plummeting off the unfinished Milwaukee bridge, reversed course with a backwards flip over the Nazis's vehicle, and arrived 120 miles south in downtown Chicago in approximately 1 minute.  Having driving the route myself, 7200 mph down I-94 & US 41 (no Tollway) is a considerable feat.

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"I hate Illinois Nazis!"

classic

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