MURC Word (or two) of the Day (as perrequest of Ajax)

[jonnylane]

it actually means a movement opposed to separation of church and state, but check out this puppy:

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

(defined as "a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust")

it was removed from the dictionary quite a while ago (probably before they started putting two columns on one page in dictionaries!)

[gt40]

yes, but can you use BOTH of them in one sentence, as sitflyer has used the previous 3 in one sentence!

[SitFlyer]

Q. What is the longest word in the dictionary?

From: http://dictionary.reference.com/help...ngestword.html

A. It depends...
It might be 'supercalifragilisticexpialidocious' (which appears in the Oxford English Dictionary), unless you want to count names of diseases (such as 'pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis', defined by the OED as "a factitious 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"), places (such as 'Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysili ogogogoch', a village in Wales; see the Web site, which has an audio pronunciation of the word), chemical compounds (apparently there is one that is 1,913 letters long), and also a few words found only in Joyce's Finnegans Wake.

Other words famous for being sesquipedalian:

antidisestablishmentarianism ("opposition to the disestablishment of the Church of England")
floccinaucinihilipilification
honorificabilitudinitatibus (Which appears in Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost, and which has been cited as [dubious] evidence that Francis Bacon wrote Shakespeare's plays)
Or perhaps smiles is the longest word, because there's a mile between the first letter and the last.

[SitFlyer]

Originally posted by gt40
yes, but can you use BOTH of them in one sentence, as sitflyer has used the previous 3 in one sentence!

Yeah
Guess if I really wanted to, I could add a couple

[KvHagedorn]

One Mr. Rumplestiltskin, the last proponent of antidisestablishmentarianism, and originally from the Welsh villiage of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysilio gogogoch, died today of pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis while fishing in the middle section of Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg.

[KvHagedorn]

My new MURC term for you all is Post Pimp. If we have so many Post Whores here, there must be a Post Pimp running the operation.. who might he (or she) be?

[SpiralDragon]

no idea.... me to confused to tell the diferance