longest word in English

[gazaly]

floccinaucinihilipilification



The Guinness Book of Records, in its 1992 and subsequent editions, declared the "longest real word" in the English language to be floccinaucinihilipilification at 29 letters. Defined as the act of estimating (something) as worthless, its usage has been recorded as far back as 1741. In recent times its usage has been recorded in the proceedings of the United States Senate by Senator Jesse Helms, and at the White House by Bill Clinton's press secretary Mike McCurry, albeit sarcastically. It is the longest non-technical word in the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. The acceptability of the 33-letter adverbial form floccinaucinihilipilificastically is subject to controversy.

 

[Himmy]

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[TΞΞNSTAR™]

buhahahhaaaa.... dats rlllly daamn hard to pronounce.....

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[shan_n95]

WTS D MEANING OF DIZ WORD

 

[ni_shi2005]

he he!! maraine

 

[kinkon]

Chaaaaaaaaaa word ekakne...

 

[henderson]

cool scene lol...hhaha...im fkin tryin to pronounce....it makes funny shit lol

 

[fazaal24]

Piksu hadei Can some one pronounce it properly??

 

[Kronic]

ha ha wt does this mean??

 

[nimni]

HAHAHAHHAHAH how do u even say that???

 

[Kalindugayan]

 

[udanindi]

Datz nice to know it. thanx for the information dear

 

[Sujakshan]

Piksu hadei Can some one pronounce it properly??

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[max4uall]

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[booleanB]

floccinaucinihilipilification



The Guinness Book of Records, in its 1992 and subsequent editions, declared the "longest real word" in the English language to be floccinaucinihilipilification at 29 letters. Defined as the act of estimating (something) as worthless, its usage has been recorded as far back as 1741. In recent times its usage has been recorded in the proceedings of the United States Senate by Senator Jesse Helms, and at the White House by Bill Clinton's press secretary Mike McCurry, albeit sarcastically. It is the longest non-technical word in the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. The acceptability of the 33-letter adverbial form floccinaucinihilipilificastically is subject to controversy.

 

[I.Udara]

hahaha Hw sm1 cn rmmbr dis word!

 

[ssudaraka]

floccinaucinihilipilification

*ෆ්ලොසිනෝසිනිහිලිපිලිෆිකේෂන්

බුදු අම්මෝ මාර අමාරුවෙන් කියවාගත්තේ!!!
හැබෑටම මොකක්ද මේ වචනේ තේරුම?

 

[hamish]

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[skybirb]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_word_in_English

 

[amiya]

Floccinaucinihilipilification (listen (help·info) American English: listen (help·info); see below for more pronunciation possibilities) (or variously floccipaucinihilipilification) is "the act of describing something as worthless, or making something to be worthless by deprecation".

With 29 letters, it is the longest non-technical word in the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), which presents it as "enumerated in a well-known rule from the Eton Latin Grammar". The OED dates its first use in literature at 1741 in William Shenstone's Works in Prose and Verse: "I loved him for nothing so much as his flocci-nauci-nihili-pili-fication of money".

Though the OED gives no specifics on its derivation, the word is said to have been invented as an erudite joke by a student of Eton College, who, upon consulting a Latin textbook, found four ways of saying "don't care" and combined them:

* flocci facere (from floccus, -i a wisp or piece of wool)
* nauci facere (from naucum, -i a trifle)
* nihili facere (from nihil, -i nothing; something valueless (lit. "not even a thread" from ni+hilum))
* pili facere (from pilus, -i a hair; a bit or a whit; something small and insignificant)

It is often spelled with hyphens, and has even spawned the back formations floccinaucical (inconsiderable or trifling) and floccinaucity (the essence or quality of being of small importance). The OED appears to have overlooked floccinaucinihilipilificatious, which has one letter more than the nominal form, and means "small" or "insignificant." When the common English nominal suffix -ness is then added to the above adjective, a thirty-four letter noun floccinaucinihilipilificatiousness is formed, which means "smallness" or "insignificance."

It is also interesting to note that floccinaucinihilipilification, in its original form, is the longest word to not contain the letter E - the most common letter in the English language.



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