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[Iron_Scarecrow]

Ahahahahahaha. Think I'll stick with tool shed.

[Iron_Scarecrow]

Well I did a google search and found that the longest word listed in Oxford dictionaries is:

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (45 letters)

It's meant to be some kind of lung disease, but theres something else about it.

Most of the words which are given as 'the longest word' are merely inventions, and when they occur it is almost always as examples of long words, rather than as genuine examples of use.

This word apparenty is one of them.

Longest in the English Oxford Dictionary is:

pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism (30 letters)

[Stroggy]

I win the dutch one:

the official longest word is:
KINDERCARNAVALSOPTOCHTVOORBEREIDINGSWERKZAAMHEDEN

followed by:
ZANDZEEPSODEMINERAALWATERSTEENSTRALEN
and
WAPENSTILSTANDSONDERHANDELINGEN (which actually means 'ceasefire negotiations')

[aaberg]

The longest danish word, that has officialy been used is:

speciall?gepraksisplanl?gningsstabilliseringsperio de (51 characters) :blink:

It's tough to translate, I don't think that word exists in many languages! It means something like: "A period where a special doctor who practises are planing, erhh... something!!?" Well.. it is not easy to translate!

Directly translated it is:
"Special doctor pracsis planing stabalising period" ??, whatever that means exacly? <_<

[wormpaul]

Originally posted by Stroggy@Oct 13 2004, 11:39 AM
I win the dutch one:

the official longest word is:
KINDERCARNAVALSOPTOCHTVOORBEREIDINGSWERKZAAMHEDEN

Damm...again learned something today

[Havell]

The longest proper word in English is:

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

It is a lung condition that is contracted by breathing in particles of fine quartz dust, often caught by quatz miners.

Some people say that the longest word in the english language is the name of a kind of bacteria but it is not a real word as it is just a list of all the proteins that go together to make it.

[TheVoid]

The longest Italian world should be of 27 letter:
PARTICOLAREGGIATISSIMAMENTE
which means, basiclally, very, VERY particularly.

Or else
PRECIPITEVOLISSIMEVOLMENTE
which means "rushing very,very,very fast"

[Kon-Tiki]

Woah, alot of Dutch people here :blink:

Mouwvegerspraktijkkuisvrouwenonderneming might be pretty long too.

[wormpaul]

Originally posted by Kon-Tiki@Oct 13 2004, 03:32 PM
Woah, alot of Dutch people here :blink:

Yes...so for i already count 6 or 7 of those "KaasKoppen" :Titan: :Titan:

[Kon-Tiki]

Hrmm... I'm no kaaskop.