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	Floccinaucinihilipilification - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		After a thorough freestyle hip-hop trouncing from a record store clerk stemming from a disagreement over his chances at an upcoming rap contest, Brak defiantly announced that loser was not in his vocabulary—but neither was floccinaucinihilipilification.
		U.S. Senators Robert Byrd and Daniel Patrick Moynihan discussed the word on the Senate floor on June 17, 1991.
		United States Senator Jesse Helms (R-NC) proclaimed his floccinaucinihilipilification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) in a July 1999 hearing.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Floccinaucinihilipilification (618 words)

	Gecko's Fun Stuff - Gecko's Blog
		Many of you have written to me about that very long and silly-sounding word, "floccinaucinihilipilification," used in the GEICO spelling bee commercial.
		In the eighteenth century, a grammar book listed a set of Latin words which all meant "of little or no value" or "trifling." Those words were flocci, nauci, nihili, and pili.
		Floccinaucinihilipilification is usually used as an example of one of the longest non-technical words in the English language.
	www.geico.com /fun/blog/blog35.htm (193 words)

	ABC NewsRadio: wordwatch, Floccinaucinihilipilification
		Floccinaucinihilipilification means “the action or habit of classifying something as worthless”.
		And floccinaucinihilipilification is no longer the longest word in the OED — it has now been surpassed by a word which is the name of a lung disease, and which is 45 letters long.
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		We simply cannot stand idle during the floccinaucinihilipilification of our efforts on becoming the world's leading authority on floccinaucinihilipilification topics.
		Not knowing the meaning of floccinaucinihilipilification somehow gave me a sense of distance from the rest of the forum.
		As a learned joke, somebody put all four of these together and then stuck —fication on the end to make a noun for the act of deciding that something is totally and absolutely valueless (a verb, floccinaucinihilipilificate, to judge a thing to be valueless, could also be constructed, but hardly anybody ever does).
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	BBC - h2g2 - Floccinaucinihilipilification - A542008
		They must be taken with an air of contempt, a floccinaucinihilipilification of all that can gratify the outward man.
		Yes, my apparent floccinaucinihilipilification of both you and your canine companion was meant to be stupendously supercilious.
		When put together, we get "the making light of a few trifles of nothing." Thus, the meaning of floccinaucinihilipilification becomes "the act of estimating something as worthless." Of course, the word can then be edited to form verbs, like floccinaucinihilipilificate, and adjectives, like floccinaucinihilipilificatious, or even other nouns, like floccinaucinihilipilificatism.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/alabaster/A542008 (508 words)

	Mickey Newbury Web Board - Floccinaucinihilipilification (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Floccinaucinihilipilification is a new one on me, too.
		The lunatic was having another Floccinaucinihilipilification episode,much to the dismay of his wife.
		The condition produced as a result of inhalation of microscopic particles of salicious vocano dust.
	www.mickeynewbury.com /board/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=5758 (247 words)

	Floccinaucinihilipilification (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The word "floccinaucinihilipilification", (also spelt "floccipaucinihilipilification") is known for being that famous flocky nocky long word but seldom is the meaning of the word floccinaucinihilipilification looked into.
		Floccinaucinihilipilification means: the act of estimating as worthless (or of low value).
		Though the people may assume madness, it is often a misplaced assumption, as it is their rash floccinaucinihilipilification which results in the opportunist acquiring items of value which have been floccinaucinihilipilificated in error!
	www.zyra.me.uk.cob-web.org:8888 /flocci.htm (247 words)

	Weird Words: Floccinaucinihilipilification
		The first recorded use is by William Shenstone in a letter in 1741: “I loved him for nothing so much as his flocci-nauci-nihili-pili-fication of money”.
		The word’s main function is to be trotted out as an example of a long word (it was the longest in the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary but pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis edged it out in the second).
		It had a rare public airing in 1999 when Senator Jesse Helms used it in commenting on the demise of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty: “I note your distress at my floccinaucinihilipilification of the CTBT”.
	www.worldwidewords.org /weirdwords/ww-flo2.htm (218 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Floccinaucinihilipilification
		I loved him for nothing so much as his floccinaucinihilipilification of money.
		Thus, the meaning of floccinaucinihilipilification becomes 'the act of estimating something as worthless'.
		Of course, the word can then be edited to form verbs, like floccinaucinihilipilificate, and adjectives, like floccinaucinihilipilificatious, or even other nouns, like floccinaucinihilipilificatism.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A590339 (415 words)

	Arms Control Association: Arms Control Today: Senator Helms' Floccinaucinihilipilification
		In his supercilious reply, Helms proclaimed his "floccinaucinihilipilification" of the CTBT, or in plain English, his belief that the treaty is absolutely worthless.
		With Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott's (R-MS) support, Helms reasserted his intention to hold the treaty hostage to advance his campaign to destroy the unrelated ABM Treaty, thereby blocking Senate action on the CTBT.
		If Helms succeeds in denying the Senate the right to exercise its constitutional responsibility to consider this important treaty, the issue must be taken to the American people.
	www.armscontrol.org /act/1999_07-08/focja99.asp (831 words)

	A Collection of Word Oddities and Trivia
		Perhaps this is most dramatically illustrated by the longest and most fantastic word now in an English dictionary (the Merriam-Webster's great Unabridged) which is forty-five letters in length: pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis,..meaning 'a disease of the lungs caused by extremely small particles of ash and dust'.
		FLOCCINAUCINIHILIPILIFICATION (29 letters; an estimation of something as worthless) is the longest word in the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary.
		Floccinaucinihilipilification was also used by Press Secretary Mike McCurry in his December 6, 1995, White House Press Briefing in discussing Congressional Budget Office estimates and assumptions: "But if you -- as a practical matter of estimating the economy, the difference is not great.
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	The Mavens' Word of the Day (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The word floccinaucinihilipilification, which is usually encountered only as an example of one the longest words in English, means something like 'the estimation of something as valueless'.
		The question of the longest word in English is a difficult one; suffice it to say that floccinaucinihilipilification is one of the longest that's been seriously used; it's also the longest word in the first edition of the OED.
		If one were going to use it in conversation, the most likely sentence would resemble, "Do you know that 'floccinaucinihilipilification' is one of the longest words in English?" But it is not without a useful meaning, and one could imagine something like "I can't believe that critic's floccinaucinihilipilification of the new Jim Carrey movie!
	www.randomhouse.com /wotd/index.pperl?date=19970327 (316 words)

	Gregor’s World » Blog Archive » floccinaucinihilipilification
		The action or habit of estimating as worthless.
		At one letter longer than antidisestablishmentarianism (Gregor’s Word of the Week for 2000-02-26), ‘floccinaucinihilipilification’ claims the title for the longest word in English.
		This word is not present in many dictionaries, but can be found in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED).
	www.focusresearch.com /gw/?p=42 (115 words)

	Floccinaucinihilipilification
		In fact, there are more asinine records in the "Guinness Book of Records" than there are blades of grass in Memorial Stadium.
		All I have to say to people trying to make trivial records is "floccinaucinihilipilification." That is the longest nonmedical word in the English language, according to Guinness, and it means "the act of estimating something as worthless." I estimate all your searches for fame as worthless.
		It is actually mind-boggling that some people would spend time coming up with some of these scenarios.
	www.siue.edu /ALESTLE/library/FALL2000/october10/flocci.html (715 words)

	Word Records > Longest Words
		FLOCCINAUCINIHILIPILIFICATION = an estimation of something as worthless.
		Interestingly the most common letter in English, E, does not appear in this word at all, whilst I occurs a total of nine times.
		The 1992 Guinness Book of World Records calls floccinaucinihilipilification the longest real word in the Oxford English Dictionary, and refers to pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis as the longest made-up one.
	www.fun-with-words.com /word_longest.html (1004 words)

	A.Word.A.Day -- floccinaucinihilipilification
		It has been heard from the mouths of White House Press Secretary Mike McCurry, Senator Robert Byrd, and Senator Jesse Helms among others.
		Maybe that tells us something about the US Congress's interest in the floccinaucinihilipilification of taxpayers' money.
		"A number of you have phoned me saying that the BBC has plumbed the depths of nationalist floccinaucinihilipilification by simply making up the daftest imaginable Scottish name for the chairman of the Gigha community land steering commission - they haven't.
	wordsmith.org /words/floccinaucinihilipilification.html (247 words)

	floccinaucinihilipilification - alphaDictionary * Free English On-line Dictionary
		Its victory has since been topped by the name of a supposed disease, pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
		There is also a widely unused verb, floccinaucinihilipilificate, and a more approachable noun, floccinaucity [fla-si-naw-sê-tee] "a trifle, something insignificance".
		In Play: The word was first recorded in a 1741 letter by William Shenstone written in 1741 and unfortunately published in 1777: "I loved him for nothing so much as his flocci-nauci-nihili-pili-fication of money".
	www.alphadictionary.com /goodword/word/floccinaucinihilipilification (409 words)

	Floccinaucinihilipilification - Definitions from Dictionary.com (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
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	Longest word in English - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The longest non-technical word is floccinaucinihilipilification at 29 letters.
		Consisting of a series of Latin words meaning "nothing" and defined as "the act of estimating something as worthless," its usage has been recorded as far back as 1741.
		^ The Guinness Book of Records, in its 1992 and previous editions, declared the "longest real word" in the English language to be floccinaucinihilipilification.
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	Wordwizard Clubhouse - Floccinaucinihilipilification (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		When you say floccinaucinihilivilification, do you actually mean floccinaucinihilipilification?
		It was a deliberate twist on the original word.
		Would I had wit to reply in like form.
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	The Floccinaucinihilipilification Homepage - Main by Darin Ohashi
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		the US Congress’s interest in the floccinaucinihilipilification of taxpayers’
		of nationalist floccinaucinihilipilification by simply making up the
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