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Jan 29, 2017 8:38 PM CST Word
kermit2007
kermit2007kermit2007melbourne, Victoria Australia14 Threads 3 Polls 158 Posts
Who knows what the longest word in the dictionary is?
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Jan 29, 2017 8:39 PM CST Word
pat8lanips
pat8lanipspat8lanipsbabinda, Queensland Australia67 Threads 14 Polls 6,372 Posts
Nah dunno.
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Jan 30, 2017 9:25 PM CST Word
Suspenders
SuspendersSuspendersSomewhere, Buenos Aires Argentina1 Threads 75 Posts
Meg, don't you know about the word?
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Jan 30, 2017 11:18 PM CST Word
sophiasummer
sophiasummersophiasummerNorthland, New Zealand112 Threads 6,528 Posts
The Bible
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Jan 31, 2017 3:30 AM CST Word
SistaCallie
SistaCallieSistaCalliePokemon, Texas USA139 Threads 1 Polls 795 Posts
kermit2007: Who knows what the longest word in the dictionary is?


'Methionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylarginyl...isoleucine' is the chemical name of 'titin' (also known as 'connectin') - the largest known protein. It has 189,819 letters. It takes 3 hours to pronounce it.

check it out.... its very long professor uh oh
http://www.digitalspy.com/fun/news/a444700/longest-word-has-189819-letters-takes-three-hours-to-pronounce/

Another long word in any of the major English language dictionaries is....
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis - Dictionary.com

www.dictionary.com/browse/pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
an obscure term ostensibly referring to a lung disease caused by silica dust, sometimes cited as one of the longest words in the English language. 1962, "A facetious word alleged to mean 'a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust' but occurring chiefly as an instance of a very long word"
.uh oh
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Jan 31, 2017 4:04 AM CST Word
UsernameTaken123
UsernameTaken123UsernameTaken123Cairns, Queensland Australia2 Threads 66 Posts
I thought it was "ihavenoideawhatyouaretalkingabout"
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Jan 31, 2017 7:08 AM CST Word
kermit2007
kermit2007kermit2007melbourne, Victoria Australia14 Threads 3 Polls 158 Posts
well good effort sista.

shame no aussie coz I would love to give you an aussie aussie aussie oi oi oi.

however the answer is SMILES coz there is a mile between the 2 's'
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