longest english word

[alphatarget1]

any ideas? i can't think of any off my mind because when i think of long words it's always in german

 

[AntaresVI]

antidisestablishmentarianism?

 

[Jhill]

supercalifrigalistiexpialidoshis

 

[SociallyChallenged]

The longest ACTUAL word is antidisestablishmentarianism. Not the one from Mary Poppins...Gah

 

[HappyPuppy]

Originally posted by: SociallyChallenged
The longest ACTUAL word is antidisestablishmentarianism. Not the one from Mary Poppins...Gah

Now, without looking at a dictionary, tell us the definition of said word.

 

[konichiwa]

google is your friend and mine

synopsis:
supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (yes it's in OED)

or if you count medicinal names: pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
or if you count places: Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch (a city in Wales that actually has a website <-- check out that URL)

but other than that:

antidisestablishmentarianism
floccinaucinihilipilification
honorificabilitudinitatibus

 

[Hartford]

the mary poppins one isnt real?! crap...

 

[Looney]

Originally posted by: HappyPuppy

Originally posted by: SociallyChallenged
The longest ACTUAL word is antidisestablishmentarianism. Not the one from Mary Poppins...Gah

Now, without looking at a dictionary, tell us the definition of said word.

um, how hard is it to figure out? Anti-dis-establishment-arianism.

 

[lowtech1]

Thailand has a town whose name has 163 letters: Krungthepmahanakornamornratanakosinmahintarayutthayamahadilokphopnop-paratrajathaniburiromudomrajaniwesmahasatharnamornphimarnavatarnsathit- sakkattiyavisanukamprasit

A Small Town with a Big Name

 

[konichiwa]

lowtech, how does that really work, doesn't thai have its own set of characters?

 

[DieselUV]

I'm surprised no one said sMILEs

 

[Nocturnal]

didyouturnonthefreakingfanyet - Missy Elliot

 

[guapo337]

Originally posted by: konichiwa
google is your friend and mine

synopsis:
supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (yes it's in OED)

or if you count medicinal names: pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
or if you count places: Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch (a city in Wales that actually has a website <-- check out that URL)

but other than that:

antidisestablishmentarianism
floccinaucinihilipilification
honorificabilitudinitatibus

gym teacher lived in that town.

 

[lowtech1]

Originally posted by: konichiwa
lowtech, how does that really work, doesn't thai have its own set of characters?

Thai does have their own set of characters (Sanskrit/Khmer), but they use the alphabet for sounding out their translation similar to the Japanese. It is a damned hard language to read but quite easy to speak for Vietnamese or Chinese.

 

[Marshallj]

You know what I never understood?

When a language has a completely different alphabet than English, they have to spell it phonetically using English letters to write it in English. With that said, how come I sometimes see a "phonetically" spelled word that is not pronounced anything like what the English letters spell?

I can see how with another language that uses a similar alphabet, such as Spanish or French, they may just copy the word over the same way it's spelled in their language to keep it easier. But when the language in question is one that doesn't use English letters and must be spelled out phonetically, shouldn't it be, well, spelled out phonetically?

 

[konichiwa]

Example...?

 

[NoReMoRsE]

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconeosis is the longest word.

 

[WarmAndSCSI]

Krungthepmahanakornamornratanakosinmahintarayutthayamahadilokphopnop- paratrajathaniburiromudomrajaniwesmahasatharnamornphimarnavatarnsathit- sakkattiyavisanukamprasit

^some town in Thailand^

 

[WarmAndSCSI]

Originally posted by: TheUnhappyCamper
Krungthepmahanakornamornratanakosinmahintarayutthayamahadilokphopnop- paratrajathaniburiromudomrajaniwesmahasatharnamornphimarnavatarnsathit- sakkattiyavisanukamprasit

^some town in Thailand^

dammit, somebody already got it

 

[WarmAndSCSI]

Gorsafawddachaidraigodanheddogleddolonpenrhynareurdraethceredigion is another town in Wales. But that's not an English word either

 

[DannyBoy]

Originally posted by: konichiwa
google is your friend and mine

synopsis:
supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (yes it's in OED)

or if you count medicinal names: pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
or if you count places: Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch (a city in Wales that actually has a website <-- check out that URL)

but other than that:

antidisestablishmentarianism
floccinaucinihilipilification
honorificabilitudinitatibus

The site not working

 

[amnesiac]

Interesting. I converted the Llanfair PG to english phonetics usign the rules in the article and got this:

(h)lanvairpoo(h)lgoouhnguh(h)lgogeruhchoouhrndroboo(h)l(h)lantuhsiliogogogoch

That looks a lot easier to pronounce. But I'm still not going to try it.

 

[Stojakapimp]

Originally posted by: NoReMoRsE
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconeosis is the longest word.

finally someone posted the correct answer

edit: well i guess it was posted earlier but more confusingly

 

[her209]

The longest word is: mile

 

[Marshallj]

The sad part is that some fools try to incorporate every giant word they can think of into their sentences in an effort to seem intelligent. Instead of getting the point across in the clearest, most concise way possible they try to confuse the listener, which defeats the purpose of talking to someone.

"I found your antidisestablishmentarianism appalling, even to such as extent that it gave me pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, I was ostracized from Krungthepmahanakornamornratanakosinmahintarayutthayamahadilokphopnop- paratrajathaniburiromudomrajaniwesmahasatharnamornphimarnavatarnsathit- sakkattiyavisanukamprasit and supercalifragilisticexpialidociously relocated to Gorsafawddachaidraigodanheddogleddolonpenrhynareurdraethceredigion."