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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sanddun" data-source="post: 5245281" data-attributes="member: 105453">The longest English word and other curious words The longest English word: The question of determining the longest English word inevitably boils down to defining what is acceptable as a word, since prefixes/suffixes can be adjoined to words to make longer words and because medical/chemical terms can get arbitrarily long. Further, most contenders for the honor of being the longest word are likely to be very rare in actual usage - so rare, in fact that they could be considered nonce words. The most common candidates for the crown, in my opinion, are antidisestablishmentarianism (28 letters), floccinaucinihilipilification (29 letters) and pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis (45 letters). </blockquote>

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