[bksvol-discuss] Re: O T humor - spell check this.
- From: "Gary Petraccaro" <garyp130@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 16:39:10 -0500
The last of the three words causes my external Doubletalk to reboot.
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From: Tiffany H. Jessen
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 9:58 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: O T humor - spell check this.
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).
The first is the only one of the three that was not specifically constructed
for the purpose of being a very long word. It means opposition to the
separation of church and state. The second, meaning the estimation of
something as worthless, is the longest non-technical word in the OED. The
latter, supposedly a lung disease, appears to be a semi-serious concoction.
Tiffany
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From: "Kasondra Payne" <Kassyp36@xxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 9:12 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: O T humor - spell check this.
> 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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