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Message de damiro posté le 2004-05-20 12:23:41 (S | E | F | I)
Hi everybody, here is a little riddle I sugest for those who want to rack their brains...

"In your opinion, what is the longest English word?"

It is aimed to anybody (learners, teachers, native-speakers)...

CLUE : this word isn't commonly used ;)

Good luck, see-you

Romu

Réponse: re de chrisg, postée le 2004-05-20 12:30:51 (S | E)
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (45 letters).

This is the name of a lung disease suffered by miners. It first appeared in Webster's New International Dictionary and then later in the second edition of the Oxford English Dictionary.

There are quite a few other very long words of a technical or scientific nature, but these do not appear in standard dictionaries. The longest of these is the term for the formula C1289H2051N343O375S8, which has 1,913 letters.

Réponse: Well done!!! de damiro, postée le 2004-05-20 12:36:23 (S | E)
Great, exactly!!! I thought I would be longer to find...

I take my hat off to you!!!

If anybody has a riddle to ask me, I would be very pleased...

Thank you

PS: could sb help me to translate "merci d'avance"... thx

Romu

Réponse: re de webmaster, postée le 2004-05-20 12:37:30 (S | E)
voir ici:
https://www.anglaisfacile.com/pages/mie/long.php

Réponse: re de gizm0, postée le 2004-05-20 12:41:21 (S | E)
PS: could sb help me to translate "merci d'avance"... thx

thanks in advance

Réponse: re de chrisg, postée le 2004-05-20 12:42:24 (S | E)
thanks beforehand !!! (merci d'avance)

Réponse: it's not a joke! de gizm0, postée le 2004-05-20 12:45:54 (S | E)
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there is also a funny unpronounciable village name in Wales
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This word has appeared in the American Chemical Society's Chemical Abstracts and is thus considered by some to be the longest real word.

check also this link
http://www.webspinning.com.au/home/lambertj/public_html/long.html
and French are proud of their anticonstitutionnellement! hahaha

Réponse: re de damiro, postée le 2004-05-20 12:53:35 (S | E)
Thank you gizm0, webmaster and chrisg...
You must take your courage in both hands to read this chimical word...

It pleasant to see in this site that everybody mobilizes to help you :D

Is there a page about slang on this site??

Thank you in advance... ;)

see-you

Romu

Réponse: re de chrisg, postée le 2004-05-20 12:55:17 (S | E)
this word does not appear in standard dictionaries, then can't be considered as the longest one. thus, it's a technical and scientific one.
So in french we might find the same kind of ones

Réponse: re de gizm0, postée le 2004-05-20 13:04:38 (S | E)
I'm sure if you got a medical one (or technic one) you'd find it...

and yes there is a slang section
https://www.anglaisfacile.com/free/argot/argot.php

Réponse: re de damiro, postée le 2004-05-20 13:05:37 (S | E)
Thank you

Réponse: kidding de mariet, postée le 2004-05-20 19:54:55 (S | E)
British kids would tell you that the longest word is SmileS ... because there is a mile between the beginning and the end ;))

Réponse: re de gizm0, postée le 2004-05-20 20:21:21 (S | E)
oh!!! how cute )) I didn't know that pun )
I've adopted it

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