Speak The Language When I deployed to Iwakuni Japan for a little over six months, while I was in the Marine Corps, I tried to learn enough Japanese so I could communicate with the locals out in town. I was deployed there twice and I must have learned about 50 or so words and I… Continue reading Speak The Language
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Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
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… Continue reading Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis