Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Spell Check Dictionary

Perhaps a bit off the track:
I learned somewhere that the longest English word is smiles. Why? There 
is a mile between the first and the last letter :-)
Kolbjoern

Den 22.05.2014 22:21, skreiv MR ZenWiz:
> 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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