Wordutianment: Yes, get entertained!
Taofik Sanni
Communication Strategist | Community/Relationship Manager | Partnership Facilitator/Stakeholder Engagement | Writer | Organisation and Leadership Development Enthusiast
Has anyone requested to have A WORD with you before?
If someone ever did
Please ensure to ask them, which of the words?
Please do so for your own good!
Why?
The longest word in the world takes 3.5 hours to pronounce.
If you doubt me, Google is my witness.
The word is 189,819 letters long.
To make your search easier, it's the name of a giant protein called Titin.
Proteins are usually named by merging the names of the constituent chemicals.
And if Titin is the largest protein the world has ever known, then the name had to be large correspondingly.
Are you still wondering why you can't find this word in any English dictionary?
If you were a publisher, would you agree to have that word in your dictionary?
According to Oxford English Dictionary, there are over 200,000 words in English Language. Only 171,476 words in current use, and 47,156 are obsolete. To this may be added around 9,500 derivative words included as subentries. (Lexico)
So if someone asks to have a word with you and it's taking hours, don't think the person is wicked.
Don't take offense, it's the word that is long.
According to irisreading.com, the following are the 10 longest words in English Language.
Calm down, don't stress too much. If you can't pronounce it at first try, don't worry. Nobody gets the first five at the first trial. And if you feel my assertion is wrong, then try it and send in your comment about your experience. Let's go!
1. Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (45 letters)
Pneumoconiosis is a lung disease caused by inhalation of very fine silicate or quartz dust.
2. Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia (36 letters)
Ironically, Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is one of the longest word in the dictionary and is the name for a fear of long words! Who would have thought, right?
3. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (34 letters)
Perhaps the best word of all! Made popular by the film Mary Poppins, Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious is something to say when you have nothing to say.
4. Pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism (30 letters)
A relatively mild form of pseudohypoparathyroidism that is characterized by normal levels of calcium and phosphorus in the blood.
5. Floccinaucinihilipilification (29 letters)
The longest unchallenged nontechnical word that not all directories recognize, that including Merriam-Webster. According to alternative sources, floccinaucinihilipilification is the act or habit of describing or regarding something as unimportant, of having no value or being worthless. Often times, it is used in a humorous way.
6. Antidisestablishmentarianism (28 letters)
A term referring to a political movement in 19th century Britain that sought to separate church and state. In this case, political movement wanted to disestablish the Church of England as the official state church of England, Ireland and Wales.
7. Honorificabilitudinitatibus (27 letters)
The longest word in Shakespeare’s works. Honorificabilitudinitatibus is the longest word in the English language featuring alternating consonants and vowels.
8. Thyroparathyroidectomized (25 letters)
A medical term that defines the excision of both the thyroid and parathyroid glands.
9. Dichlorodifluoromethane (23 letters)
A chlorofluoromethane CF2Cl2.
10. Incomprehensibilities (21 letters)
Impossible to comprehend. In the 1990’s, incomprehensibilities set the record as the longest word “in common usage.”
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