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    • Dear Lovely Moon
      Thanks for the post,
      Well
      There is a little debate on the longest English word. What makes this issue controversial is that fact that most of the English words are compositions of suffixes and prefixes which makes inventing a word an almost everyday aspect especially in science. The last generation of the English language which is the fourth generation which started after the breakout of the Industrial Revolution when scientists and inventors had to come up with new vocabulary of their everyday discoveries and inventions. So, some linguists excludes all scientific words from being nominated as longest words and hence they stick to the longest non-scientific word which is antidisestablishmentarianism (28 letters). This word is so common in the regular dictionaries that Microsoft Word spelling checker will accept it unlike the other words which are only used in a very specialized scientific lexicon.
      For your information, antidisestablishmentarianism was a school of thought termed for those who apposed abolishing the rule intended for depriving the church from any authorities.

      For scientific words you may also find words which are even longer than
      pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (45 letters) which is the longest word currently listed in Oxford dictionaries and means the supposed lung-disease, like
      osseocarnisanguineoviscericartilaginonervomedullary (51 letters), which translate roughly as 'of bone, flesh, blood, organs, gristle, nerve, and marrow'.

      Thnaks lovely moon!

      Inquisitive

    • PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICS ILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS



      Nearest entry to : [pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis]
      pneumonia noun [uncountable]

      hello Tenderness
      ,
      First of all I got this information from reliable source but that doesn’t mean it is always right!!! I want to thank you a lot!!!
      But let me say my own view in this word!!!
      Language changes constantly. Old words may disappear entirely. Or their meaning may change. For example, the word clepe, meaning “ to call” or “ name” has disappeared from ordinary use. The word score dates from the 14th century, and one early definition of the word is “ twenty.” So, as life changes, words are created to name new objects, inventions, or experiences. All what I want to say is that in English language new words came to name new objects and terms. That is to say “ there is no limit for words in English language”. And there are over 3000 Arabic words came in to English. May be this word come in to English too. “My own view”

      I wan to thank you again for this information and you told me the original of this word, which came from Troma.
      Have a nice day!!!

    • Maskeen Tenderness ma 2aal shai, malak 3aleeh :)

      I agree with you that the English language is on renewal. But what you said has nothing to do with my argument. All the words, I came with, are there in use until now. Also, I don’t question your source but the whole thing is questionable. There is no cut-off criterion.
      See :
      - If we exclude all scientific terms which don’t exist in any dictionary then, antidisestablishmentarianism will be the longest.
      - If we stick to whatever mentioned in the common dictionaries of which is Oxford dictionary, then yours will be the longest.
      - If we just take the longest ever used, the one I told you about could be the one and could not; it is very likely that this word might be outranked by a longer word. The one I gave you is still in use.


      There are many words used daily in science but don’t exist in the dictionary in the same way they are used. There are many words that I am using daily and MS word red-underlined them like, flowrate for example. There is no such a word in the dictionary, it has to be flow rate. You see what I mean!