Can’t Breathe… Too long… A word…
is considered to be the longest English word to date, consisting of 45 letters. It pertains to a lung disease caused by inhaling fine silica dust usually released by volcanoes.
Interestingly, the word was coined specifically so as to be considered the longest English word. It’s more commonly known as pneumoconiosis (not that that’s saying much), otherwise known as black lung disease.
You know what? If someone with that disease was forced to mention the name of his/her disease, s/he’d have run out of breath a quarter through the word. People sometimes… Tsk, tsk.
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July 25th, 2007 at 3:47 am
Wooooaah, Thats…..looooong.
July 25th, 2007 at 8:59 am
It is, isn’t it?@_@ And to think they made it just to claim the record for longest word. Those people must’ve been bored.
July 26th, 2007 at 9:45 pm
Oh man, this is tough!
July 27th, 2007 at 7:33 am
The word’s pretty easy to dissect though.:P It’s like they strung together a bunch of prefixes just to come up with it.
October 9th, 2007 at 9:32 pm
Okay, soo… could someone plug on a pronunciation key?
But this is even better. Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia. Not quite as long, but… it means the fear of long words. Now that’s a word that’s cruel to its people.
October 10th, 2007 at 2:56 am
Ah, the sheer irony of life.:P Maybe I should categorize that word as a tongue twister.:p