Why is smiles the longest word in the english language?
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because there is a mile between each S
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That's not true. The official longest word is over 64,000 characters long. It is theoretical mature protein compound.
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The Guinness Book of Records, in its 1992 and subsequent editions, declared the "longest real word" in the English language to be floccinaucinihilipilification at 29 letters. Defined as "the act of estimating (something) as worthless", its usage has been recorded as far back as 1741. In recent times its usage has been recorded in the proceedings of the United States Senate by Senator Jesse Helms, and at the White House by Bill Clinton's press secretary Mike McCurry, albeit sarcastically. It is the longest non-technical word in the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. The acceptability of the 33-letter adverbial form flocci­nauci­nihili­pilificastically is subject to controversy. The longest word in the Oxford English Dictionary is Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, an invented word supposed to refer to a lung disease.
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The longest *actual* word in the English language is Antidisestablishmentarianism (supercalafragalisticexpecialadocious does not count, seeing as it is not a real word)
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It is the longest non-technical word word in the English language and means the act of calling something worthless or making something worthless by those means.  I honestly did know this word exsisted because I gave it as an answer to a question on here "What is the longest word?"  I didn't get best answer because the asker chose 'antidisestablishmentarianism', probally because he thought my answer of "floccinaucinihilipilification" was just made up. I took Latin at university for two years so yes, I could pronounce this word.
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SUPER­CALI­FRAGI­LISTIC­EXPI­ALI­DOCIOUS (34)\n\nPNEUMONO­ULTRA­MICRO­SCOPIC­SILICO­VOLCANO­CONIOSIS (45)(Lungs disease)\n\nfloccinaucinihilipilification (29) (official english long word)\n\nA popular joke answer to the "longest word" question is the word smiles, credited as the longest word because there is a mile between each s.\nssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssmilessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss.\n\nhave fun\nemarketingclass@gmail.com
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FLOCCINAUCINIHILIPILIFICATION...\nconsidered to be the longest "real" word.  \n\n\nPNEUMO-\nNOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICO-\nVOLCANOCONIOSIS...\nmade up for the sole purpose of being the longest word. \nI had to split that word up because it kept cutting off the end for some reason.\n\nElipsis...generally, the use of dots to replace omitted words, phrases within a quote, letters, etc. I abuse it liberally.\n\nI enjoy closing my eyes and letting the mellifluous tones of my husband's voice roll over me. (Unless he is yelling...that is rather more like a sonic boom.)
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The longest word in any major English language dictionary is\npneumono­ultra - ­micro­scopic­sili - co­volcano­coniosis, a 45-letter word supposed to refer to a lung disease, but research has discovered that this word was originally intended as a hoax. It has since been used in a close approximation of its originally intended meaning, lending at least some degree of validity to its claim.\n\nThe Oxford English Dictionary contains pseudopseudo - hypoparathyroidism  (30 letters).\n\nThe longest non-technical word is \nflocci­nauc - i­nihili­pili­fication at 29 letters. Consisting of a series of Latin words meaning "nothing" and defined as "the act of estimating something as worthless," its usage has been recorded as far back as 1741. In recent times its usage has been recorded in the proceedings of the United States Senate by Senator Robert Byrd, and at the White House by Bill Clinton's press secretary Mike McCurry, albeit sarcastically.\n\n(Words hypenated because Yahoo was shortening them by cutting it off and using ...)
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if you mean the longest word, i believe the longest word in the dictionary is antidisestablishmentarianism
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....according to this.....the official longest word is under the chemical section containg 3,641 and 1,914(not listed); and listed with 1,185 letters........\n\nLongest Words\n(45) PNEUMONO­ULTRA­MICRO­SCOPIC­SILICO­VOLCANO­CONIOSIS (also spelled PNEUMONO­ULTRA­MICRO­SCOPIC­SILICO­VOLCANO­KONIOSIS) = a lung disease caused by breathing in particles of siliceous volcanic dust.\nThis is the longest word in any English dictionary. However, it was coined by Everett Smith, the President of The National Puzzlers' League, in 1935 purely for the purpose of inventing a new "longest word". The Oxford English Dictionary described the word as factitious. Nevertheless it also appears in the Webster's, Random House, and Chambers dictionaries.\n(37) HEPATICO­CHOLANGIO­CHOLECYST­ENTERO­STOMIES = a surgical creation of a connection between the gall bladder and a hepatic duct and between the intestine and the gall bladder.\nThis is the longest word in Gould's Medical Dictionary.\n\n(34) SUPER­CALI­FRAGI­LISTIC­EXPI­ALI­DOCIOUS = song title from the Walt Disney movie Mary Poppins.\nIt is in the Oxford English Dictionary.\n\n\n"But then one day I learned a word\nThat saved me achin' nose,\nThe biggest word you ever 'eard,\nAnd this is 'ow it goes:\nSupercalifragilisticexpialidocious!"\n(30) HIPPOPOTO­MONSTRO­SESQUIPED­AL­IAN = pertaining to a very long word.\nFrom Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure and Preposterous Words.\n\n(29) FLOCCI­NAUCINI­HILIPIL­IFICATION = an estimation of something as worthless.\nThis is the longest word in the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. Interestingly the most common letter in English, E, does not appear in this word at all, whilst I occurs a total of nine times. The word dates back to 1741. The 1992 Guinness Book of World Records calls flocci­nauci­nihili­pilification the longest real word in the Oxford English Dictionary, and refers to pneumono­ultra­micro­scopic­silico­volcano­koniosis as the longest made-up one.\n\n(28) ANTI­DIS­ESTABLISH­MENT­ARIAN­ISM = the belief which opposes removing the tie between church and state.\nProbably the most popular of the "longest words" in recent decades.\n\n(27) HONORI­FICABILI­TUDINI­TATIBUS = honorableness.\nThe word first appeared in English in 1599, and in 1721 was listed by Bailey's Dictionary as the longest word in English. It was used by Shakespeare in Love's Labor's Lost (Costard; Act V, Scene I):\n\n\n"O, they have lived long on the alms-basket of words.\nI marvel thy master hath not eaten thee for a word;\nfor thou art not so long by the head as\nhonorificabilitudinitatibus: thou art easier\nswallowed than a flap-dragon."\nShakespeare does not use any other words over 17 letters in length.\n\n(27) ELECTRO­ENCEPHALO­GRAPHICALLY\nThe longest unhyphenated word in Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (10th Ed.), joint with ethylene­diamine­tetraacetate (see below).\n\n(27) ANTI­TRANSUB­STAN­TIA­TION­ALIST = one who doubts that consecrated bread and wine actually change into the body and blood of Christ.\n\n(21) DIS­PRO­PORTION­ABLE­NESS and (21) IN­COM­PREHEN­SIB­ILITIES\nThese are described by the 1992 Guinness Book of World Records as the longest words in common usage.\n\nSome say SMILES is the longest word because there is a MILE between the first and last letters!\n\n\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nChemical Terms\nTwo chemical terms (3,641 and 1,913 letters long) have appeared in the Guinness Book of World Records. They were withdrawn because they have never been used by chemists, and there is no theoretical limit to the length of possible legitimate chemical terms. A DNA molecule could have a name of over 1,000,000,000 letters if it was written out in full.\n(1,185) ACETYL­SERYL­TYROSYL­SERYL­ISO­LEUCYL­THREONYL­SERYL­PROLYL­SERY
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Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia- Fear of long words.\n\nPNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS (45 letters; a lung disease caused by breathing in certain particles) is the longest word in any English-language dictionary\n\nTETRAMETHYLDIAMINOBENZHYDRYLPHOSPHINOUS ACID (39 letters in the first word) appears in the OED2 in a citation for another word; this word itself is not a vocabulary entry. \n\nSUPERCALIFRAGILISTICEXPIALIDOCIOUS (34 letters) from the movie Mary Poppins is not the longest word in English, although many people believe it is. The word is in the OED, which has the following as the first four citations: \n\n1949 Parker & Young (unpublished song-title) Supercalafajalistickespialadojus.\n1951 Parker & Young (song-title) Supercalafajalistickespeealadojus; or, The super song.\n1964 R. M. & R. B; Sherman (song-title) Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!\n1967 Decisions U.S. Courts involving Copyright 1965-66 488 The complaint alleges copyright infringement of plaintiff's song `Supercalafajalistickespeealadojus' by defendants' song 'Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.' (All variants of this tongue twister will hereinafter be referred to collectively as 'the word'.) \n(The definition says Disney won, "in view of earlier oral uses of the word sworn to in affidavits" and because they wrote the rest of the song themselves.) \n\nFLOCCINAUCINIHILIPILIFICATION (29 letters; an estimation of something as worthless) is the longest word in the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. The OED2 shows a use of this word in a 1741 letter by William Shenstone (1714-1763), a British poet and essayist. It has been used by Sir Walter Scott and Senators Robert Byrd and Daniel Patrick Moynihan. It was used by Senator Jesse Helms in 1999 during the debate on the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty [Randolph V. Cinco]. \n\nHONORIFICABILITUDINITATIBUS (27 letters) is the longest word used by Shakespeare. It appears in Love's Labor's Lost, Act V, Scene I, and is spoken by Costard: \n\nO, they have lived long on the alms-basket of words.\nI marvel thy master hath not eaten thee for a word;\nfor thou art not so long by the head as\nhonorificabilitudinitatibus: thou art easier\nswallowed than a flap-dragon.\n\nINTERNATIONALIZATION (or INTERNATIONALISATION) has a common abbreviation among computer people based on its length: I18N or i18n, i.e. there are 18 letters omitted [Mark Brader]. \n\nCzechoslovakia-a country
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there's 'antidisestablishmentarianism' at 28 letters, meaning 'opposition to the disestablishment of the Church of England'. It is often considered the longest word as it has an actual meaning instead of being created just to be long.
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The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.\n\n"Rhythm" and "syzygy" are the longest English words without vowels.
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STRENGHTS...Longest word with one vowel only
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Longest non technical word is \n\nfloccinaucinihilipilification\n\nLongest technical word is \n"pneumonoultramicroscopic- \nsilicovolcanoconiosis" \n\n(it is the name of a lung disease caused by inhaling fine mineral dust)\n\nIt is a common misconception that "Antidisestablishmentarianism" \nis the longest word.\n\nI had to hyphenate the technical word because yahoo was truncating it for some reason. It is not hyphenated in its correct spelling.
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According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the longest English word of one syllable is the ten-letter scraunched, appearing in a 1620 translation of Cervantes' Don Quixote. It is a largely obsolete form of scrunched or crunched.\n\nThe eleven-letter word broughammed (created by analogy with bussed, biked, carted etc.), while readily pronounceable as one syllable in all dialects ("broomed"), is yet to appear in a print dictionary. See: "ough" words.\n\nThe 10-letter word "squirreled" is arguably monosyllabic.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_longest_English_words_with_one_syllable
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SMILES   \n\nS---MILE---S\n\nthis word is miles long hence logically it is the biggest word in the whole world