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Definitely, that 'ISM' should be something opposite to DISESTABLISHMENTARIANISM :)
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| #3 (permalink) Sat Sep 30, 2006 19:58 pm New long word ANTIDISESTABLISHMENTARIANISM |
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Hi!
I wonder whether that word really exists? I mean, for me it sounds double negativ: Anti_dis_establishmentarianism, doesn?t it?
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| #4 (permalink) Sun Oct 01, 2006 8:24 am New long word ANTIDISESTABLISHMENTARIANISM |
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antidiscrimination (laws)?
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| #5 (permalink) Sun Oct 01, 2006 8:52 am New long word ANTIDISESTABLISHMENTARIANISM |
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How about this:
antidisestablishmentarianismesque
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| #6 (permalink) Sun Oct 01, 2006 8:58 am New long word ANTIDISESTABLISHMENTARIANISM |
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| ANTIDISESTABLISHMENTARIANISM |
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| antidisestablishmentarianismesque |
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:lol: What's that by Allah ?? :lol:
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| #7 (permalink) Sun Oct 01, 2006 9:54 am Word |
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Hi,
Who can explain what the word means?
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| #9 (permalink) Sun Oct 01, 2006 20:49 pm Word |
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Hi Conchita,
OK, I give in.
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| #10 (permalink) Sun Oct 01, 2006 20:57 pm Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis |
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| pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (a 45-letter word supposed to refer to a lung disease). :roll: |
Ah, but can you say it, Conchita? :lol:
At least antidisestablishmentarianism is pronounceable. :D
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| #11 (permalink) Sun Oct 01, 2006 22:12 pm Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis |
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| Ah, but can you say it, Conchita? :lol: |
Right, saying it is another matter altogether! Still, it's a piece of cake as compared to memorizing it! :) |
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| #12 (permalink) Sun Oct 01, 2006 22:27 pm Word |
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An honest, humble and concise definition if there ever was one (for such a pretentiously grandiloquent thing)! |
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| #13 (permalink) Mon Oct 02, 2006 7:22 am Words :-) |
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Hi
Just to add several words for your enjoyment :) :
supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian
honorificabilitudinitatibus
floccinaucinihilipilification
Trinitrophenylmethylnitramine
immunoelectrophoretically
psychophysicotherapeutics
thyroparathyroidectomized
pneumoencephalographically
radioimmunoelectrophoresis
psychoneuroendocrinological
antidisestablishmentarianism
hepaticocholangiogastrostomy
spectrophotofluorometrically
floccinaucinihilipilification
pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism
metaphysico-theologo-cosmolonigology
aminoheptafluorocyclotetraphosphonitrile
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The longest word ever (1,913 letters) is the term for the formula C1289 H2051 N343 O375 S8
It is the chemical name of the protein part of the tobacco mosaic virus:
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Hi,
OK I'll shut up although I'd still like an explanation of what must now be regarded as my pathetic little word.
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:shock: :shock: :shock:
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I think that we need to an archaeologist to decipher this " hieroglyphs " . :lol:
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