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by BUBBLES no wonderPublished Jul. 23, 2008
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious:
su·per·cal·i·frag·i·lis·tic·ex·pi·al·i·do·cious Audio Help –adjective(used as a nonsense word by children to express approval or to represent the longest word in English.)
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FORMICATION: noun
for·mi·ca·tion Audio Help [fawr-mi-key-shuhn]
a tactile hallucination involving the belief that something is crawling on the body or under the skin.
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SUSURRUS:
su·sur·rus Audio Help [soo-sur-uhs]
–noun, plural -rus·es. a soft murmuring or rustling sound; whisper.
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Special thanks to:
YouGottaBeKiddingMe and Mogwai for the words I used today!
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July 24, 2008 1:31 a.m.
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (also spelled -koniosis) is, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, "a factitious word alleged to mean 'a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust found in volcanoes' but occurring chiefly as an instance of a very long word. It was coined to serve as the longest English word . Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is the longest word ever to appear in an English language dictionary. This 45-letter word, referred to as P45, first appeared in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) in 1936. It is still listed in the current edition of the OED, as well as several current American dictionaries. A condition meeting the word's definition is normally called silicosis.
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You used all three words in one sentence.
And it made sense.
This early in the day!
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