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Dr. Know	203227.  Thu Aug 23, 2007 9:23 am .........well it isn't.
bankrobber1126	203234.  Thu Aug 23, 2007 9:28 am dr. know wrote: .........well it isn't. Quite right, it's not. It's a made-up quasi-medical term.
Tomi from Suomi	902429.  Tue Apr 17, 2012 1:35 pm In Finnish, the longest single wor I can think of is: Ratsastajattarittakinko? which means: eaven without a female horseback riders?
WordLover	902449.  Tue Apr 17, 2012 4:24 pm Sebastian flyte wrote: Anyone got loneliness? (quite pathetic, aw bless) or there's Pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism. So there is. So someone who seems to have the symptoms of pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism but doesn't actually have that condition could be said to have pseudopseudopseudohypoparathyroidism. The longest sensible word I know? How far may I go before the words stop being sensible? There may be granddaughters, great-granddaughters, great-great-granddaughters, ...........
mckeonj	902486.  Tue Apr 17, 2012 6:17 pm Well, if you are going to hyphenate......... "It was well-I'll-go-to-the-foot-of-our-stairs astonishing!"
Efros	902491.  Tue Apr 17, 2012 6:27 pm honorificabilitudinitatibus, according to Will. RUBISCO acronym of ribulosebisphosphatecarboxylaseoxygenase enzyme in photosynthesis, but obviously very silly, not sensible at all.
Celebaelin	902493.  Tue Apr 17, 2012 6:29 pm Infinity.
Efros	902494.  Tue Apr 17, 2012 6:30 pm Well if you're going to get clever... Smiles
suze	902504.  Tue Apr 17, 2012 7:26 pm Marriage It's not so much as a word as a life sentence. More seriously, I have actually used antidisestablishmentarianism for real a few times.
Moosh	902520.  Wed Apr 18, 2012 2:28 am Since it was open I just skimmed through it and I think the longest words used in my dissertation are projectivisation and anti-isomorphisms. But I'm sure someone's going to tell me that those don't count.
WordLover	902525.  Wed Apr 18, 2012 3:26 am Efros wrote: Well if you're going to get clever... Smiles Clever. Using a similar idea, TAUT because there's an AU (astronomical unit) between the ends.
djgordy	902535.  Wed Apr 18, 2012 4:27 am bankrobber1126 wrote: It's a made-up quasi-medical term. I don't think that criticising a word on the grounds that it is "made up" is really all that valid. It is an inherent property of all words to be "made up".
djgordy	902536.  Wed Apr 18, 2012 4:30 am Efros wrote: Well if you're going to get clever... Smiles Slightyears?
Efros	902552.  Wed Apr 18, 2012 5:33 am Is that what Spock has?
djgordy	902607.  Wed Apr 18, 2012 8:08 am Efros wrote: Is that what Spock has? No. Spock had big ears.... ..because Noddy wouldn't pay the ransom.

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