Yes, that is in fact one of the longest words. I am one of those odd ones
who uses AIM and instead of away messages saying what I'm doing puts up an
assortment of odd useless facts, quotes, or lines of humor. One of the first
was in fact about the longest words, gotten from
http://theory.cs.iitm.ernet.in/~arvindn/curious_words/
Here is what is said:
The longest English word: The question of determining the longest English
word inevitably boils down to defining what is acceptable as a word, since
prefixes/suffixes can be adjoined to words to make longer words and because
medical/chemical terms can get arbitrarily long. Further, most contenders
for the honor of being the longest word are likely to be very rare in actual
usage - so rare, in fact that they could be considered nonce words. The most
common candidates for the crown, in my opinion, are
antidisestablishmentarianism (28 letters), floccinaucinihilipilification (29 letters) and pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (45 letters).
Tiffany
Lissi,
That's great. Someone correct me if I am wrong, but I think the longest
English word is antidisestablishmentarianism. At least that's what I was
taught in the eighth grade. By the way, that's only 28 letters long, so
it's less than half the size of that thing. By the way, your word would be
very interesting on something like Wheel of Fortune.
Also, thanks to everyone thanks for your good wishes. Rebekah still isn't
home yet, but that's good in a way. I still get some sleep. She's had some
breathing problems mainly due to her prematurity and our altitude up here.
However, she's eating well and maintaining her own temperature. I am sorry
I have to go. My middle child is tearing my house apart. That still sounds
weird thinking of Andrew as my middle child.
Kasondra Payne
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