Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

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Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

Bless you, that sneeze sounded like it really hurt. Actually, Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is the longest true word in the English language. This 45-letter word appears in the Oxford English Dictionary and is a word for a lung disease more commonly known as silicosis. If you are wanting to know how to pronounce this word, you can hear it in this video.

This super smart kid spells it perfectly on the Steve Harvey show.

Yep, you guessed it, this post is about long words and if you suffer from hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia, the fear of long words, then you might want to skip this post.

Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapiki-maungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitnatahu is the longest name (85 letters) of a location (a hill located in New Zealand, and is in the Maori language) –

Check out this weather man pronounce the name of this Welsh town that has 58 letters.

This Texas girl, who goes by Jamie, has a name that has 1,019 letters in her name, poor girl. Her birth name was Rhoshandiatellyneshiaunneveshenk Koyaanisquatsiuth Williams, but a few weeks later, her mother, filed a 1,000 letter amendment and now her birth certificate is two-feet in length. She is also an entry in the Guinness book of world records for her name. That record was previously owned by Hubert Blaine, who died in 1997, and had 747 letters in his name.

If you want to know how to spell that, here you go:

Rhoshandiatellyneshiaunneveshenkescianneshaimondrischlyndasaccarnae renquellenendrasamecashaunettethalemeicoleshiwhalhinive’onchellecaundenesheaalausondrilynnejeanetrimyranaekuesaundrilynnezekeriakenvaunetradevonneyavondalatarneskcaevontaepreonkeinesceellaviavelzadawnefriendsettajessicannelesciajoyvaelloydietteyvettesparklenesceaundrieaquenttaekatilyaevea’shauwneoraliaevaekizzieshiyjuanewandalecciannereneitheliapreciousnesceverroneccaloveliatyronevekacarrionnehenriettaescecleonpatrarutheliacharsalynnmeokcamonaeloiesalynnecsiannemerciadellesciaustillaparissalondonveshadenequamonecaalexetiozetiaquaniaenglaundneshiafrancethosharomeshaunnehawaineakowethauandavernellchishankcarlinaaddoneillesciachristondrafawndrealaotrelleoctavionnemiariasarahtashabnequckagailenaxeteshiataharadaponsadeloriakoentescacraigneckadellanierstellavonnemyiatangoneshiadianacorvettinagodtawndrashirlenescekilokoneyasharrontannamyantoniaaquinettesequioadaurilessiaquatandamerceddiamaebellecescajamesauwnneltomecapolotyoajohnyaetheodoradilcyana

But none of that can hold a candle to the next word. Did you know that the word in the below video which is 189,819 characters with is supposedly the longest word known to man? It’s actually the name of a giant protein called Titin. There is actually a video on YouTube of someone reading it. It took Jimmy Donaldson (known as Mr. Beast, a YouTube influencer), close to two hours to mutter his way through this word.

Damn, and growing up I thought it was difficult to pronounce supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, which only has 34 letters in it.

Source:

https://www.mosalingua.com/en/longest-word-in-the-world/

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Welcome to the Average Joe Weekly blog. This is basically my place on the web where I can help spread some of the knowledge that I have accumulated over the years. I served 10+ years in the Marine Corps on Active Duty, but that was some 25 years ago.
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