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	The English Language and such
		The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched." "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
		The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
		The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means "the king is dead." The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses.
	www.angelfire.com /ar/lutherdoyle/nonhumor/englishlanguage.html (585 words)

	Fun With Words: Word Oddities
		The longest words to form other words when Rot13 encrypted are the seven letter words abjurer and nowhere, which become each other.
		Other words with this property are scarce; they include the ten letter words duoliteral and unoriental, the fourteen letter word subcontinental, and the fifteen letter words neuroepithelial and uncomplimentary.
		The longest alphabetic sequences to appear in English words are mnop and rstu.
	rinkworks.com /words/oddities.shtml (2267 words)

	Language Trivia
		Underground is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters und.
		The longest one-syllable word in the English language is screeched.
		There is a seven letter word in the English language that contains ten words without rearranging any of its letters, therein : the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, here, ere, therein, herein.
	thecathedralchoir.org.uk /thecathedralchoir/english_trivia.htm (276 words)

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		The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched." 2.
		The longest place-name still in use is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwe-nuakit natahu, the Maori name of a hill in New Zealand.
		There is a seven-letter word in English that contains eleven words without rearranging any of its letters, "therein": the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, ere, I, therein, herein.
	www.webenglishteacher.com /text/lingtrivia.txt (363 words)

	What is the longest word in the English language?
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		In which countries is English the language spoken as a first language by the majority of the population?
		english, english language, english lingusitics, english as a second language, english as a foreign language, english, english as the world language
	www.englishenglish.com /english_facts_15.htm (198 words)

	Daily Challenge #2
		This was first recognized as the longest word in the English language by the National Puzzlers' League at their 103rd semi-annual meeting in February 1935, as reported by the New York Herald Tribune on February 23, 1935.
		The longest word I found that is actually considered to be a word by all sources (though it doesn't appear in my American dictionaries in this form) is "antidisestablishmentarianism", which means "opposition to the disestablishment (that word DOES appear in the American Heritage Dictionary) of the Church of England".
		Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis succeeded electrophotomicrographically as the longest word in the English language recognized by the National Puzzlers' League at the opening session of the organization's 103d semi-annual meeting held yesterday at the Hotel New Yorker.
	www.etni.org.il /challenge/challenge2.htm (917 words)

	Grammar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		-The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA.
		-Typewriter, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
		-The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
	www.pacifier.com /~dllibby/dstrfactsgram.htm (190 words)

	yourDictionary.com•Comprehensive and Authoritative Language Portal
		This word has never been used; it was artificially contrived to be the longest word in the English language.
		Go to the yourDictionary's Quick Lookup, type in 2 or more words you would expect to be in the definition of the word, select "Definitions" instead of "Normal" in the menu bar to the right of the input.
		An acronym is a word formed from the initials of words in a phrase, such as NATO ['neyto] from North Atlantic Treaty Organization or "scuba" from "self-contained underwater breathing apparatus." It is often used to include abbreviations but abbreviations are not all pronounceable words.
	www.yourdictionary.com /about/substantive.html (1726 words)

	Do Unto OthersProject-Church of the Science of God (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The longest one-syllable words in the English language are “screeched” and “strengths”.
		The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is: pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovoicanoconiosis.
		The very longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA.
	www.dountoothers.org /english.html (413 words)

	Quest for the Longest Word quiz -- free game
		Interestingly enough, research has discovered that the supposed "longest word" is somewhat of a hoax, although it is still in nearly all of the major English dictionaries to date.
		Place names have always been doubted as whether or not they are words, and I believe they can't qualify for the longest word, since they aren't in the dictionary.
		The word lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypotrimmatosilphioparaomelitokatakechymenokichlepikossyphophattoperisteralektryonoptekephalliokigklopeleiolagoiosiraiobaphetraganopterygon is a valid word in the English language.
	www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=232455 (281 words)

	Amazing Word Facts
		There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous" -- tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
		The longest place-name still in use is a New Zealand hill, Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwenuakitnatahu.
		There is a seven letter word in the English language that contains ten words without rearranging any of its letters, "therein" -- the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, ere, therein, herein.
	homepage.mac.com /mseffie/handouts/wordfacts.html (488 words)

	Language & Words Trivia
		The English word with the most consonants in a row is latchstring.
		The third longest word in the English language is "antidisestablishmenterianism".
		The longest muscle name is the "levator labiisuperioris alaeque nasi" and Elvis popularized it with his lip motions.
	www.jayp.net /trivia/lang01.htm (2019 words)

	Longest word in The AnswerBank: Arts & Literature
		However there are strong indications that the word was coined by puzzler Everett Smith in 1935 as a hypothetical long word that could result from the protraction of medical terms.
		TOED specifically says of the 'flocci...' word - and I quote - "humorous...enumerated in a well-known rule of the Eton Latin Grammar..." (The underlining is mine, of course.) It then goes on to quote from Shenstone et al, as you say, Kempie.
		The 'antidis...' word remains the longest non-joke/non-jargon word in English
	www.theanswerbank.co.uk /Arts-and-Literature/Question101615.html (1320 words)

	PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS (Literature / Poetry)
		According to the Guiness book of World Records, the longest word ever to occur in a literary work has to do with a fricassee, with 17 sweet and sour ingredients, including brains, honey vinegar, fish, pickles, and ouzo.
		Other words with this property are scarce; they include the ten letter words duoliteral and unoriental, the fourteen letter word subcontinental, and the fifteen letter word uncomplimentary.
		Fifteen letter words with this property are their singular forms.
	www.proz.com /topic/2207 (2459 words)

	BlurtIt: Which is the longest word in the English Language with all letters ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		BlurtIt: Which is the longest word in the English Language with all letters...
		A common misconception is that the longest English word which has all letters in the alphabetical order is “almost”.
		However, it is a word for a grass genus "Aegilops" which contains eight-letters that is the longest English word and having all its letters appearing in the alphabetical order.
	www.blurtit.com /q191214.html (285 words)

	Longest word in English - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The longest word in any major English language dictionary is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, a 45-letter word supposed to refer to a lung disease contracted from the inhalation of volcanic ash, but research has discovered that this word was originally intended as a hoax.
		Diisopropylaminoethylmethylphosphonothyalate is 44- letter word that is supposedly a nerve gas that the United States armed forces have been testing as of 2001.
		The longest multi-word place name in the world spelled in English is Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Ayuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Piman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit, the formal ceremonial name for Bangkok, Thailand.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Longest_word_in_English (2332 words)

	Longest word in the English language? - Page:8
		pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is a word, it mean a lung condition that is caused by breathing in volcanic ash or dust for long periods of time, one of the longest words in the world is
		It is a real word, and i can pronounce it, and i'd like to see you post this 270,000 letter word, whatever it is! (Oh yeah, I had my word checked by an advanced scientist of biology and he said that this word is a word, and is the longest word he new!!
		The longest German word I know is (without the accents that I can't type): Das Donaudampfgesselschaftskapitanmutzensilbersteinlein, meanind the little silver star on the hat of the captain of the Danube shipping society.
	www.englishforums.com /English/LongestWordEnglishLanguage/8/jh/Post.htm (493 words)

	English Language Facts
		There is a word in the English language with only one vowel, which occurs six times: Indivisibility.
		The second longest word in the English language is "antidisestablishmenterianism".
		When two words are combined to form a single word (e.g., motor + hotel = motel, breakfast + lunch = brunch) the new word is called a "portmanteau."
	www.coopsjokes.com /amz/amzlang.htm (438 words)

	The J-Walk Blog: Longest Word? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		This 1185-letter "word" is the chemical name for "Coat Protein, Tobacco Mosaic Virus, Dahlemense Stain".
		It is supposedly the longest word in the English language.
		It does hold the record for the longest word in an English language publication in a serious context, that is, for some reason other than to publish a very long word.
	j-walkblog.com /index.php?/weblog/posts/longest_word (91 words)

	Longest Words (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		supposedly the longest word in the english language (other than strange chemicala compounds) is antidisestablishmentarianism.
		The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA.
		It basically translates to: Saint Mary's Church in the hollow of the white hazel near a rapid whirlpool and the Church of St. Tysilio of the red cave.
	www.phrasebase.com /forum/read.php?TID=1405 (828 words)

	Word Records > Longest Words
		Here we look at some of the longest words in English dictionaries, and discuss whether they should be considered to be real words.
		This word has appeared in the American Chemical Society's Chemical Abstracts and is thus considered by some to be the longest real word.
		It is the longest word in the Macquarie Dictionary and is also in the Oxford English Dictionary (2nd Ed.).
	www.fun-with-words.com /word_longest.html (990 words)

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		The longest place-name still in use is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimau ngahoronukupokaiwenuakitanatahu, a New Zealand hill.
		The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz." The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
		The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means "the king is dead".
	www.downhereintexas.com /text/strange1.txt (713 words)

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		The word 'pixel' is a contraction of either 'picture cell' or 'picture element'.
		The first word spoken by an ape in the movie Planet of the Apes was "Smile".
		The word for mis-heard lyrics is 'mondegreen.' It comes from a folk song in the '50's.
	home.uchicago.edu /~ashley/randumb.html (2339 words)

	A.Word.A.Day -- internationalization
		A better question might be: "What's the longest word in any English language dictionary?" We'll see the answer to that at the end of this week.
		Even though most of the time the only purpose they serve is to be cited as examples of long words, they have genuine usage.
		Most of the longest words in English are names of chemical compounds, names of diseases or technical words, and not very interesting to remember or talk about.
	wordsmith.org /words/internationalization.html (381 words)

	More Interesting Facts
		The only other word with the same amount of letters is its plural: pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosesl.
		The longest place-name still in use is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwe-nuakit natahu, a New Zealand hill.
		There is a seven-letter word in the English language that contains ten words without rearranging any of its letters, "therein": the,there, he, in, rein, her, here, ere, therein, herein.
	www.etni.org.il /farside/moreinterestingfacts.htm (463 words)

	A Collection of Word Oddities and Trivia
		I conjecture that this "word" was coined by word puzzlers, who then worked assiduously to get it into the major unabridged dictionaries (perhaps with a wink from the editors?) to put an end to the endless squabbling about what is the longest word.
		Both W1 and W2, which include every word used by Shakespeare, define the word as "honorableness" and label it a "pedantic nonsense word." It is the ablative plural of the Latin contrived honorificabilitudinitas, which is an extension of honorificabilis meaning "honorableness." It first occurs in English in 1599, used by Thomas Nashe.
		SMILES is supposed to be the longest word in the dictionary because "there's a mile between the two S's." Randal J. May points out that adding one letter to SMILE adds two syllables (in forming SIMILE).
	www.francesfarmersrevenge.com /stuff/oddities/words11.html (2376 words)

	Trivia
		The English language is spoken all around the world, with approximately over 500 million estimated speakers.
		Rapidly expanding, English has become an international language mainly because of its extensive use in the business world.
		Which is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other?
	www.northern.edu /exponent/archive/2001/0131/life/0131-trivia.htm (213 words)

	The J-Walk Blog: Floccinaucinihilipilification (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		According to the Guinness Book of Records, floccinaucinihilipilification is the longest real word in the English language.
		The longest hypothetically legal Scrabble word (hypothetical because it exceeds 15 letters, the width of a Scrabble board) in North American play is ethylenediaminetetraacetates (28 letters).
		This is arguably an English word (rather than Latin), but only because he used it.
	j-walkblog.com /index.php?/weblog/posts/floccinaucinihilipilification (137 words)

	AskOxford: Can a DNA string be considered the longest word in English?
		I have read that the longest word in the English language is 1,909 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA.
		A 'word' of 1,909 letters cannot be a genuine word but must be a chemical name for the whole of a human chromosome which would run to many thousands of letters, but we would not consider it a word in the sense of an item of English vocabulary.
		Are there any words in the English language that use all five vowels with no intervening consonants?
	www.askoxford.com /asktheexperts/faq/aboutwords/long (613 words)

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