![]() ![]() With only 34 letters in it, it is beaten by the word: “Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis” This word is probably one of my favourite words in the English language, and NO, it is not the longest word in English. I would copy it into this post but it's so long that it takes up ~70 pages of a text document! It supposedly takes three hours to say the whole word. ![]() The chemical name of the protein "titin" comes in at the longest word that I know of. You probably won't find it in the dictionary but this next word takes the cake! Though it's Welsh rather than English, the town Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch beats both of those at 58 characters! It means: "Saint Mary's Church in the hollow of the white hazel near the rapid whirlpool of Llandysilio of the red cave". At 45 characters long it's ten characters longer than supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! But there's another word that appears in many English dictionaries that's even longer. Is the longest word in the Oxford English dictionary, apparently. Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis Who would have thought? But it is not the longest. It is apparently a word in the English dictionary. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious is a term that is used during a musical segment of the film. It's about a nanny (a person who looks after children) who helps to mend the troubled relationship within a family. Sadly, despite it's meaning, you won't find people using it in casual conversation. You can use it to sum up anything that is exceptionally good or wonderful. The party after the circus was supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. "the only word to characterize Kepler's discoveries was ‘Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious’"Ĭhoose languageAfrikaansAlbanianAmharicArabicArmenianAzerbaijaniBanglaBasqueBelarusianBosnianBulgarianBurmeseCatalanCebuanoChinese (Simplified)Chinese (Traditional)CorsicanCroatianCzechDanishDutchEsperantoEstonianFilipinoFinnishFrenchGalicianGeorgianGermanGreekGujaratiHaitian CreoleHausaHawaiianHebrewHindiHmongHungarianIcelandicIgboIndonesianIrishItalianJapaneseJavaneseKannadaKazakhKhmerKinyarwandaKoreanKurdishKyrgyzLaoLatinLatvianLithuanianLuxembourgishMacedonianMalagasyMalayMalayalamMalteseMāoriMarathiMongolianNepaliNorwegianNyanjaOdiaPashtoPersianPolishPortuguesePunjabiRomanianRussianSamoanScottish GaelicSerbianShonaSindhiSinhalaSlovakSlovenianSomaliSouthern SothoSpanishSundaneseSwahiliSwedishTajikTamilTatarTeluguThaiTurkishTurkmenUkrainianUrduUyghurUzbekVietnameseWelshWestern FrisianXhosaYiddishYorubaZulu ![]() The word was popularized in the 1964 film Mary Poppins, in which it is used as the title of a song and defined as "something to say when you have nothing to say." ![]()
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