Why is "Alliteration" such a long word?
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Because the person who came up with it made it that way, obviously.\n\nThere are, however, longer words...polysaccharide, acetaminopohen, antidisestablishmentarianism, dinoflagellate, etc.
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No. it is not. The well-known song title from the movie Mary Poppins, Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, with 34 letters, does appear in several dictionaries, but only as a proper noun, and defined in reference to the song title. Hence it may well be dismissed as not a "real" word.\n\n\nThe 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 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. It is the longest non-technical word in the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary.\n\n\nHowever, There are seemingly endless debates over what is the longest word in English, demonstrating that the idea of what constitutes a word is not as straightforward as it seems. Hyphenated or space-delimited compounds and proper nouns are linguistically considered words, but as they can grow with few limits, they are not counted.\n\nAntidisestablishmentarianism (a 19th century movement in England opposed to the separation of church and state) at 28 letters is often popularly accepted as English's longest word, and is probably the best-known "longest word." Other versions such as Antidisestablishmentarianistically and Pseudoantidisestablishmentarianism are demonstrably longer, though, showing that 'popular acceptance' is not a guarantee of accuracy. (See also the "Constructions" section below.) "Antidisestablishmentarianism" is actually used seriously in academic and ecclesiastical writing about the Church of England when the concept arises, and although one may suspect that authors have gone out of their way not to avoid it, it does thus have a serious claim to be the longest real word in current English.\n\nThe word pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, also spelled pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis, is defined as "a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica or quartz dust." At 45 letters, it is certainly the longest word ever to appear in a non-technical dictionary of English, the Oxford English Dictionary. However there are strong indications that the word was coined by puzzler Everett Smith in 1935 as a hypothetical long word that could result from the protraction of medical terms. The actual name of the disease is pneumoconiosis, which is 14 letters long.\n\n\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. Of course, by this reckoning the word beleaguered, which contains a league, is even longer.\n\nAccording to some, the longest word is the word after the sentence "And now, a word from our sponsors".\n\nAlthough only fourteen letters long, sesquipedalian deserves a mention. It is derived from a nonce word used by the Roman author Horace, in his work "Ars Poetica" (The Art of Poetry). The quote is as follows: "Proicit ampullas et sesquipedalia verba," which means, "He throws aside his paint pots and his words that are a foot and a half long". The Oxford English dictionary lists sesquipedalianism ("the practice of using words one and a half feet long"), and further derivations can be created as described in the "Constructions" section above.
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good question, which makes me wonder why abbreviation is such a long work.
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Because sometimes big words are shorter than diminuative ones.
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excellent\n\nIt's preety obvious, since it's quite long\n\nOther word I found, but perhaps they are formed by mere coincidence:\nsay\nguy\nsaw\nqwerty(it's the name of the layout of keyboard that have qwerty as it's first six letter of the alphabet top row, most keyboard have this layout)\nqwertyuioplkjhgfdsazxcvbnm (not necesarilly a word, but it's a sequence that happens when you run the keyboard from topleft to top right, then middleright to middleleft, then bottom left to bottom right of your keyboard!)\nrun\nexcel\nexcellent\nguy\nprey\ncure\nnun\ntie\n\nNote: if you wonder how there is these words, then you have to know that Yahoo Answer cuts words that is longer than a certain length, you had to move your cursor over it to see the rest of the word, but even this may not be enough, you had to see the html source of the webpage to see the whole of them
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Yes, this is very interesting. This was discovered at Cambridge University, it is because the human mind reads each word as a whole, instead of each individual letter. That is why we can still read it. Neat huh?
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Good question! The only answer I can come up with is for the same reason people use lots of O's in loooooooooooong words.
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Hi there,\n\nWe do have genuine (if rather obviously deliberate) examples in our files of antidisestablishmentarianism (28 letters) and floccinaucinihilipilification (29 letters), which are listed in some of our larger dictionaries. Other words (mainly technical ones) recorded in the complete Oxford English Dictionary include: \n\notorhinolaryngological (22 letters), \nimmunoelectrophoretically (25 letters), \npsychophysicotherapeutics (25 letters), \nthyroparathyroidectomized (25 letters), \npneumoencephalographically (26 letters), \nradioimmunoelectrophoresis (26 letters), \npsychoneuroendocrinological (27 letters) \nhepaticocholangiogastrostomy (28 letters), \nspectrophotofluorometrically (28 letters), \npseudopseudohypoparathyroidism (30 letters). \n\nMost of the words which are given as 'the longest word' are merely inventions, and when they occur it is almost always as examples of long words, rather than as genuine examples of use. For example, the medieval Latin word honorificabilitudinitas (honourableness) was listed by some old dictionaries in the English form honorificabilitudinity (22 letters), but it has never really been in use. The longest word currently listed in Oxford dictionaries is rather of this kind: it is the supposed lung-disease  pneumono ultra microscopic silico volcanoconiosis (45 letters). \n(no space is there between the letters. I have added a space because here it is being showed as ...)\n\nrule wid style n luv@vinny
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elyas you are wrong!you are making it up\n\nDermatoglyphics, misconjugatedly, and uncopyrightable, each fifteen letters long, are the longest English words in which no letter appears more than once.
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They think typin like dis is kool. I'm on your side. I think it's retarded how people use "u" "r" and other acronyms. It takes like... what? THREE SECONDS to type the whole word?
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The site below has word lists. If you click the 'list all words by length' link you can get lots of words.
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antidisastablishmentarianism is supposed to be the longest word in the English dictionary but I couldn't tell you about other languages...
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Alliteration: This term means having words that start with the same letter or sound. For example:\n\nRound the ruggered rocks\nthe raggered rascal ran\n\nor\n\nPeter Piper picked a peck of pickeled peppers\nIf peter Piper piper picked a peck of pickeled peppers\nHow many peppers did Peter Piper pick.\n\nOnomatopoeia means the sounds in the poem have some similaraty of the sound being described or mentioned in the poem/proes.\n\nPoem later\n\nMeter is the rythmn of the poem.\n\nCannons to thr e right of them\nCannons to the left of them\nInto the valley of death rode the 600.
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maybe the system is not able to parse a word that long, or the scripting language used to display the answer can't handle a value for any one word that is more than 30 characters long....
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long vowels sound like the letter it's self\na  e  i  o  u
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I think it is very slow. And yet it doesn't find words that we perpously spell wrong. xD
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i dunno if it has all the letters but antidisenstablishmentarianizm is a pretty long word!\n\n i know it's true because i found it in a dictionary!