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TimRuns
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 Posted: 09/21/03 - 20:30 Post subject: The Longest Word in the World today is....
pneumonoultramicroscopidsilicovolcanoconiosis
According to my Technical Terms in Medicine and Bioscience Prof, It's a word made up entirely by Greek components- 45 letters in total! 
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Posted: 09/21/03 - 20:36 Post subject: Re: The Longest Word in the World today is....
| TimRuns wrote: | pneumonoultramicroscopidsilicovolcanoconiosis
According to my Technical Terms in Medicine and Bioscience Prof, It's a word made up entirely by Greek components- 45 letters in total! |
Great!
Now what is it??
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TimRuns
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Posted: 09/21/03 - 20:38 Post subject: Re: The Longest Word in the World today is....
| Floridaboiler wrote: | | TimRuns wrote: | pneumonoultramicroscopidsilicovolcanoconiosis
According to my Technical Terms in Medicine and Bioscience Prof, It's a word made up entirely by Greek components- 45 letters in total! |
Great!
Now what is it?? |
I know it's some "volcanic" disorder of the lungs but I'm not sure... 
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Posted: 09/21/03 - 20:39 Post subject:
so is that what youre doing instead of studying? looking up the longest words in the world?
at least im just hanging out here to procrastinate... 
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TimRuns
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Posted: 09/21/03 - 20:41 Post subject:
| crazyfrog wrote: | so is that what youre doing instead of studying? looking up the longest words in the world?
at least im just hanging out here to procrastinate... |
come on, it's in my notes. I was just doing an online practice quiz for this course in prep for the real one on Tuesday.
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Posted: 09/21/03 - 20:42 Post subject:
quick how many points in scrabble is that.
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Posted: 09/21/03 - 20:44 Post subject:
| TimRuns wrote: | | crazyfrog wrote: | so is that what youre doing instead of studying? looking up the longest words in the world?
at least im just hanging out here to procrastinate... |
come on, it's in my notes. I was just doing an online practice quiz for this course in prep for the real one on Tuesday. |
sure. i bet it is!
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Posted: 09/21/03 - 21:57 Post subject:
OK. Asking 'cause I don't know. What's the longest word used in regular (i.e., non-business) conversation? And, no, "antidisestablishmentarianism" does not count. Use your own judgemnet what counts as regular conversation.
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Posted: 09/21/03 - 22:35 Post subject:
hypophysiotropic
adenohypohysis
adrenocorticotropic
supraoptichismatic
sorry, im putting off working on my endocrinology essay exam...and yes, these words really do come up every day for me!
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Posted: 09/21/03 - 22:42 Post subject: Re: The Longest Word in the World today is....
| TimRuns wrote: | pneumonoultramicroscopidsilicovolcanoconiosis
According to my Technical Terms in Medicine and Bioscience Prof, It's a word made up entirely by Greek components- 45 letters in total! |
Wow! and I would have guessed Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious 
Sounds pretty atrocious...
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Posted: 09/21/03 - 22:51 Post subject:
| rtpd113 wrote: | | quick how many points in scrabble is that. |
...apparently it's not a legal scrabble term.
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Posted: 09/21/03 - 23:00 Post subject:
one more....
supraopticparaventriculohypophysial tract, coming in at 35 letters
def: the neural axons that run from the SON to the PVN, a major tract of the hypothalamus....
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TimRuns
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Posted: 09/21/03 - 23:25 Post subject:
How bout floccinaucinihilipilification which means in Latin "of little value"? Probably the 2nd longest....
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Posted: 09/22/03 - 05:57 Post subject:
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, is a village in Wales.
The longest word ever to appear in writing is: (170 letters in Greek, translated into English is 182)
Lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypotrimmatosilphiopar aomelitokatakechymenokichlepikossyphophattoperisteralektryonopteke phalliokigklopeleiolagoiosiraiobaphetraganopterygon
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Posted: 09/22/03 - 07:58 Post subject:
| Cappy wrote: | Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, is a village in Wales.
The longest word ever to appear in writing is: (170 letters in Greek, translated into English is 182)
Lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypotrimmatosilphiopar aomelitokatakechymenokichlepikossyphophattoperisteralektryonopteke phalliokigklopeleiolagoiosiraiobaphetraganopterygon |
which means.....
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