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There are two answers.

The longest word in any English language is the name of a small town
in Wales - Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyllllantysiliogogogoch
(see Wikipedia if you're curious about what and where this is).  I had
thought it was 56 letters, but this one is 59.  Hmm.

The longest word in American English is
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, aka black lung disease.
 It is 45 letters.

There is a longer word, which is the 85 letter long name of a village
in Africa, but I don't know what that one is (and I'm too lazy to
Google it right now :-).

FWIW.

MR

On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 12:11 PM, anne-ology <laginnis@gmail.com> wrote:
       reminds me of "and the longest word in the English language is ... "

          or is it supercalifragilisticespialidocious  ;-)
              https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRFHXMQP-QU


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