Wont see me for awhile,I caught pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

[oblivion]

Hehe......it is the longest word in the english language..........that is according to the Oxford English dictionary
THought you guys would find it kinda interesting........LOL that is a funny sounding word
I do not really have it silly

[welsh wizard]

if you ain't got it, you could still tell us what it is, just in case some hypo thinks he has it http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/wink.gif
WW

[barry glisson]

Take 2 teaspoons of castor oil. That will clear you right out. barry

[KAknight]

I caught that once, but I didn't lock its cage one night and it escaped.

[Underclocked]

Sounds sort of like you might have got a lung full of sand and then erupted? http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/wink.gif

[NDC]

Whatever the heck that is...... It sound deadly serious! :P LOL

[Gomer]

For more vocabulary fun.....

Who can tell me the only word in the English language with three sets of double letters in a row. The pair of "t"s in the word "leTTer" is an example of a set of double letters. By "in a row" I mean one set after another.

Also, what is the only word in the English language which contains the vowels AEIOU and sometimes Y in order.

[jjsole]

Its a lung disease that miners (not minors http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif) are susceptible to getting. Some researcher must have had an ego problem to name this one.

[jjsole]

Hmmm...I guess in a row can't mean "Mississippi", so could it be...

bookkeeper?

or how about 4 sets in a row?

subbookkeeper http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

Good question! (Thanks, Jeeves. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif)

[Gomer]

Round 1 to jjole. I dunno if subbookkeeper is a word. If it was I think it would be hyphenated sub-bookkeeper.

Who can get the second one?

[CujoRbd]

well, gomer. how about abstemious, or if you want the "y" in there, too, then abstemiously. or maybe facetious (and again, with a "y" it'd be facetiously).

there are others, and they can be found here: http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=%2Aa%2Ae%2Ai%2Ao%2Au%2A


later.


CujoRbd




[This message has been edited by CujoRbd (edited 08-29-2000).]

[Gomer]

Cheating???? I dunno http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif An impressive use of the tools at your disposal though. Good job. I am impressed by the speed of both of your replies. Before the advent of dictionaries that allowed wildcard searches, that was a more difficult question. BTW, the word I was looking for was facetiously.

[alondra]

If you find a doctor that can spell it, he can cure it. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

[jjsole]

I found an even longer word. Can anyone guess what it means? (without looking it up)

Sysopticocaphilianthroptilliolackadaisahemotraumat osis

[voogru]

Beat this!
superduperextremesysopticocaphilianthroptilliolack adaisahemotraumatosis

[Mntsnow]

Something that happens to SysOpt members that Sit to long infont of there computers? http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/biggrin.gif ROFL

[ablang]

When we were kids, wasn't the longest word known to children as "supercalafragilisticespalajosus"?

[Underclocked]

Sysopticocaphilianthroptilliolackadaisahemotraumat osis would be trying to freely help people posting at SysOpt until you develop an attitude and then suffer chronic brain rot while gazing mindlessly into your monitor.

Or, sumpin' like dat.