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    It's the medical term. We normally call it Hikke.

    And you're the onomatopoeia imho.


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    Floccinaucicihilipification. It's not particularly long, but it makes up for it by being quite easy to fit into everyday conversation.
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    Q. What is the longest word in the dictionary?
    A. It depends . . .
    It might be supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (which appears in the Oxford English Dictionary), unless you want to count names of diseases (such as 'pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis', defined by the OED as "a factitious word alleged to mean 'a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust' but occurring chiefly as an instance of a very long word"), places (such as 'Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch', a village in Wales), chemical compounds (apparently there is one that is 1,913 letters long), and also a few words found only in Joyce's Finnegans Wake.

    Other words famous for being sesquipedalian:

    antidisestablishmentarianism ("opposition to the disestablishment of the Church of England")
    floccinaucinihilipilification
    honorificabilitudinitatibus (Which appears in Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost, and which has been cited as [dubious] evidence that Francis Bacon wrote Shakespeare's plays)
    Or perhaps smiles is the longest word — after all, there is a mile between the first letter and the last.
    I like the end... smiles!

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    Off the top of my head? Pericombobulations. Not sure if it's even a real word! There's also antidisestablishment, actually. Which is longer. So there you go.

    EDIT: Turns out you can extend that last word with an 'arianism' but I couldn't remember that bit.
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    Hypernevrokustiskediafragmakontraksjoner .

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    Quote Originally Posted by Faris
    Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

    Edit: BOTHER! >=o
    xD its so great that we thought of the same thing at the same time xD

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    Quote Originally Posted by boris no no
    Quote Originally Posted by Faris
    Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

    Edit: BOTHER! >=o
    xD its so great that we thought of the same thing at the same time xD
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    Noobcakes. It may not be longer but it is uber.
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    Discobobulation. =|

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    Quote Originally Posted by I Took the Red Pill
    Pneumoultramicroscopicsilicovolcaniconeosis. That's definitely spelled wrong, but I memorized how to say that word a while ago (I didn't cheat, I swear). It's some kind of lung disease caused by inhaling volcano ash.

    EDIT: So long VBulletin put a space in for me
    I was going to say that one, but I knew someone would beat me to it.

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    Blah. *boom*

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    A lot of people make it seem like antidisestablishmentarianism is a hard word to spell, but it's really not. All ya have to do is sound it out! It's easier than many small words.

    Edit: IBCrayZ beat me too it.
    Last edited by Medi; 07-28-2006 at 02:52 AM.

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    isskabibble. =p

    My friend says it all the time, not sure if it's real.

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    Wow, that Wales thing is real? I just thought Old Manus fell asleep on his keyboard or something.

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