Re: 世界上最長的單字

[jerrylii (雪特立)]

 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 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.

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Popular usage
Antidisestablishmentarianism (a 19th century movement in England opposed to the separation of church and state) at 28 letters is often popularly accepted as English's longest word, and is probably the best-known "longest word." Other versions such as Antidisestablishmentarianistically and Pseudoantidisestablishmentarianism are demonstrably longer, though, showing that "popular acceptance" is not a guarantee of accuracy. (See also the "Constructions" section below.) "Antidisestablishmentarianism" is
actually used seriously in academic and ecclesiastical writing about the Church of England when the concept arises, though one may suspect that authors have gone out of their way not to avoid it.

The word pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, also spelled pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis, is defined as "a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica or quartz dust." At 45 letters, it is certainly the longest word ever to appear in a non-technical dictionary of English, the Oxford English Dictionary. However, there are strong indications that the word was coined by puzzler Everett Smith in 1935 as a hypothetical long word that could result from the protraction
of medical terms. The actual name of the disease is pneumoconiosis, which is 14 letters long.



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: 最長的單字是couple(情侶)啦　
: 去死團勇敢的站出來吧　XD

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