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Long Words
Mr. Fowler is known to use long words and to help students understand them for example:
Antidisestablishmentarianism
Yet there are longer words in English.
The longest word in the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) was 29- letter floccinaucinihilipilification (the categorizing of something worthless or trivial) The Longest word in the second edition of the OED is usually cited as the longest word in any English dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis (a miner’s lung disease caused by inhaling silica. It is at 45 letters. Some scholars however deride this word as “made up,” and declare, “floccinaucinihilipilification” to be the champion. Of course there are some hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian (30 letters, means “long”) words in specialized fields, especially chemistry, where they apparently just tack on another few letters every time they rewrite the textbook. The full name of the tryptophan synthetase A protein, an enzyme with 267 amino acids, extends to 1,913 letters.
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Try fitting this one onto a scrabble board.
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