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The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.

The only other word with the same amount of letters is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural.

can anyone tell me what this word means??

how about pronouncing it?

Yes I had this once but they cured it with penisillun. My scrotum still itches a little though.

and here I was going to say it is a chest ailment....oooooops

No, you're right. It's caused from inhalation of silica dust

Is that like a cheap implant?

A factitious word alleged to mean 'a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust found in volcanoes.

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
(a 45-letter word which refers to a lung disease contracted from the inhalation of very fine silicious particles. Research has discovered that this word was originally intended as a hoax. It has since been used in a close approximation of its originally intended meaning, lending at least some degree of validity to its claim.)

can't tell you much about the word but I can break it down somewhat..
pneumo...of or relating to the lungs/respiratory system/brachii
no...
ultra... greater or super
microscopic... too small to be seen with the naked eye
silico...of or related to silica (sand)
volcano...obviously something from a volcano
con....latin or spanish for "with"
iosis...a disease


So..to me it sounds like some crap somebody made up to say that some dude crawled down into a volcano, inhaled some sand that screwed up his lungs...and it was probably microscopic particles floating around in the air which the silica dust irritated the lungs and caused pneumonia like symptoms and maybe even open lesions in the lungs or bronchial tubes.... just my guess.

lol, yea, it's a do it yourself implant.

It's basically a really long way to say coal miners disease.