Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanocon

This one's for you DRJBHL...

Sunday, June 21, 2009 by Uvah | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk

Found this on Yahoo. What are the longest words in the english language. Title means a lung desease caused by the inhalation of volcanic ash causing an inflamation of the lungs. Where do they get these words from?!?!

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PoSmedley
Reply #1 Sunday, June 21, 2009 10:49 AM

Where do they get these words from?!?!

 

Richard M. and Robert B. Sherman

DrJBHL
Reply #2 Sunday, June 21, 2009 11:03 AM

Title means a lung desease caused by the inhalation of volcanic ash causing an inflamation of the lungs.

Sounds like the guy needs his ashes hauled...

OR

His ash is really in the grinder.

NightTrainthedark
Reply #3 Sunday, June 21, 2009 11:08 AM

There is a lake here in Massachusetts called..

Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg

Wizard1956
Reply #4 Sunday, June 21, 2009 11:10 AM

Sounds like the guy needs his ashes hauled...

OR

His ash is really in the grinder.

....or he caught it second-hand from some ashhole.

Uvah
Reply #5 Sunday, June 21, 2009 11:13 AM

(Hopefully this'll work this time)

If the lake is as big as it's name where do the people live? On humungous mats of sea'weed'... ...from the Sargasso?? Holy Smoke!!

Bet you thought I didn't know you just made that up...huh? 

 

PoSmedley
Reply #6 Sunday, June 21, 2009 11:13 AM

There is a lake here in Massachusetts called..

Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg

Let me guess.......

It's the sound the colonists first heard when a native drowbned in it.

DrJBHL
Reply #7 Sunday, June 21, 2009 12:06 PM

PoSmedley
There is a lake here in Massachusetts called..

Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg

Let me guess.......

It's the sound the colonists first heard when a native drowbned in it.

coulda been Chappaquiddick.......

Bichur
Reply #8 Sunday, June 21, 2009 12:47 PM

Bet you thought I didn't know you just made that up...huh?

 

Welcome to OldeWebster

 

 

boss0190
Reply #9 Sunday, June 21, 2009 1:45 PM

There is a lake here in Massachusetts called..

Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg

I googled it and he ain't lyin'...

 

Xiandi
Reply #10 Sunday, June 21, 2009 1:59 PM

Found this one here: http://writinghood.com/style/the-most-horrible-english-words/

 

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According to the Guinness Book of World Records, 18th edition, this 1,909-letter-long word is regarded as the world’s longest word in the English language. This word has also included in the American Chemical Society’s Chemical Abstracts. It is the longest real word of a Tryptophan Synthetase (its scientific name is Methionylglutaminy…serine) A protein, an enzyme that has 267 amino acids which describes a protein in the amino acid of a strand of DNA. The shortened version of this protein is known as titin, or sometimes conectin, which is involved in striated muscle formation. Its empirical formula is C132983H211861N36149O40883S693.

NightTrainthedark
Reply #11 Sunday, June 21, 2009 1:59 PM

I googled it and he ain't lyin'

I do not lie.

Xiandi
Reply #12 Sunday, June 21, 2009 2:01 PM

I think I may have Hippopotomonstrosequippeddaliophobia.

Uvah
Reply #13 Sunday, June 21, 2009 3:35 PM

I would not even attempt to try and read that. Hell...I doubt I could pronounce the damn thing. Holy...bad word. And it's in our DNA? Where did they find room for it??? 

Bichur
Reply #14 Sunday, June 21, 2009 3:46 PM

this 1,909-letter-long word

 

I disagree with it's identity as a 'word'... it has way too many hypens to be a word... it's a name and a name is not necessarily a word...

 

 

Uvah
Reply #15 Sunday, June 21, 2009 4:37 PM

 ...it has way too many 'hypens'...

Hyphens......you been hangin' out with Zubaz too too long.

starkers
Reply #16 Sunday, June 21, 2009 5:39 PM

Actually, the longest word in the English language is SmileS.

Bichur
Reply #17 Sunday, June 21, 2009 5:47 PM

Hyphens......you been hangin' out with Zubaz too too long.

 

naw, more like.... hy had uh werd an hy pen ad uh werd an hy pen ad uh udder werd an hy pen ad uh udder word....

Uvah
Reply #18 Sunday, August 1, 2010 9:11 AM

A year...a month and ten days later is how long it took to say......HUH???

DrJBHL
Reply #19 Sunday, August 1, 2010 9:43 AM

Actually, the term is:

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.

I wonder what the term will be for the first responders' lung disease caused by the ash/smoke/aerosolized material from the Twin Towers.

 ...it has way too many 'hypens'...

Hyphens......you been hangin' out with Zubaz too too long.

 

starkers
Actually, the longest word in the English language is SmileS.

And the happiest!

A year...a month and ten days later is how long it took to say......HUH???

It was a 'well considered' "HUH?".

Uvah
Reply #20 Sunday, August 1, 2010 10:46 PM

If that's the longest word is the shortest 'a' or 'be. Could 'be' to, or, no, er.................................................HUH?

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