485 sats \ 4 replies \ @stargut 8 Dec 2023 \ on: Fun Fact Friday - Best Fun Fact Gets 10,000 Sats meta
The longest English word is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, which is forty-five letters long and refers to a type of lung disease.
https://www.grammarly.com/blog/14-of-the-longest-words-in-english/
The fear of long words is called
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia
This 36-letter word was first used by the Roman poet Horace in the first century BCE to criticise those writers with an unreasonable penchant for long words
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wow--until now the most sesquipedalian word I knew was floccinaucinihilipilification.
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š if you say it out loud it doesn't even sound like English
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Turkish long word: ĆekoslovakyalılaÅtıramadıklarımızdandırlar.
Meaning: They are from that we were not able to make them Czechoslovakian.
Google Translator couldn't translate it.š¤£š¤£š¤£
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