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Who won the contest to get the bonus video from Marina? Is it one of your old timers, and is it such a rare video that it is only in your personal collection and not on YT anywhere???
I believe the following link is the video that may have won?
Notice that Marina left a comment below the video.
I have not come Marina’s response video, so I’m sure it is private.
This is Blake Austin’s response to Marina’s video above.
Re: floccinaucinihilipilification – huh?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM7-XNJtbds
Not sure why you posted that link. Sorry, but even if a smoking hot Russian blonde says it, it does not make it a word. Plus NO major dictionary gives credit to the silicosis derivation, whereas MOST give it to floccinaucinihilipilification. Those that don’t give it to antidisestablishmentarianism. Again pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovalcanoconiosis is NOT a real word, it is just a set of prefixes affixed to volcaonconiosis, for the SOLE purpose of creating a long word. (Even my spell checker gets it right!)If this is to accepted, then any number of other words are longer, including the names of numerous organic molecules, and I can make ANY word longer just by adding additional prefixes and/or suffixes. Why not:
“quasipneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovalcanoconiosisity”?
Sorry for all the would-be smarty pants out there, but pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovalcanoconiosis is NOT the longest word in the English language. It is not even an English word. Sorry to all the supposed nurses that posted, but this word is NOT the name of an actual disease, it is a word created in 1935 by Everett M. Smith, president of the National Puzzlers’ League that was created SOLELY for the purposes of creating the longest word. There are no actual attributions of this word EVER being used outside of this context. The condition it purports to describe is actually termed, simply, “silicosis.” The longer term certainly does not appear in any medical textbooks for the purposes of describing the aforementioned condition.
As such, most sources give longest word credit to the word that inspired the current video. Barring recently coined words with little or no etymological backing, the title falls to the slightly shorter “antidisestablishmentarianism.”
So there.
FTR, the correct pronunciation of the word would actually be flɒksɨˌnɔːsɨˌni(h)ɪlɨˌpɪlɨfɪˈkeɪʃən, not *ˌflɒksɨˌnɔːsɨˌnaɪ(h)ɪlɨˌpɪlɨfɪˈkeɪʃən. The “i” in “nihili” is a long “i.” As it is Latin, that would be an “ee” sound, not “i” as in “kite.”
-damn ur hot when u say the word the 2nd time.. xoxo;D
But Marina, you did not pronounce it right!
At 0:40 sec, you actually say “floccinaucinifilipilification”
f – h
Hi, Marina!
I am new here!
I have been totally overwhelmed by your charisma and beauty!
Now on the topic…
Well I think it is not required to have two degrees in philology to be able to get information for meaning and history of words…
Just be smart and “I-gile” enough to make it through google, wikipedia, etymonline, or any other free-info based internet source…
Anyway…
About the 45-letters longest word you can find in a major dictionary:
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
Now let’s find the basic words it consists:
pneumonia, ultra, microscope, silico, volcano, silica, coniosis
And now all you have to do is search for the meanings and origins of all these words… No “googling” allowed, please be fair!
…and I cant wait to hear it from your pretty mouth
Greetings, Emilian
Good Lord! This has got to be the sexiest video I have ever seen in my entire life! Thank you, teacher
i was wondering if you knew what this word meant
acetylseryltyrosylserylisoleucylthreonylserylprolylserylglutaminyl-
phenylalanylvalylphenylalanylleucylserylserylvalyltryptophylalanyl-
aspartylprolylisoleucylglutamylleucylleucylasparaginylvalylcysteinyl-
threonylserylserylleucylglycylasparaginylglutaminylphenylalanyl-
glutaminylthreonylglutaminylglutaminylalanylarginylthreonylthreonyl-
glutaminylvalylglutaminylglutaminylphenylalanylserylglutaminylvalyl-
tryptophyllysylprolylphenylalanylprolylglutaminylserylthreonylvalyl-
arginylphenylalanylprolylglycylaspartylvalyltyrosyllysylvalyltyrosyl-
arginyltyrosylasparaginylalanylvalylleucylaspartylprolylleucylisoleucyl-
threonylalanylleucylleucylglycylthreonylphenylalanylaspartylthreonyl-
arginylasparaginylarginylisoleucylisoleucylglutamylvalylglutamyl-
asparaginylglutaminylglutaminylserylprolylthreonylthreonylalanylglutamyl-
threonylleucylaspartylalanylthreonylarginylarginylvalylaspartylaspartyl-
alanylthreonylvalylalanylisoleucylarginylserylalanylasparaginylisoleucyl-
asparaginylleucylvalylasparaginylglutamylleucylvalylarginylglycyl-
threonylglycylleucyltyrosylasparaginylglutaminylasparaginylthreonyl-
phenylalanylglutamylserylmethionylserylglycylleucylvalyltryptophyl-
threonylserylalanylprolylalanylserine
they say its a chemical.. but im not sure what it means but all i can say is that it has over a thousand letters..
Well, I’m no chemical engineer; but, judging by the (almost exclusive) use of base amino acids concatenated together (exempli gratia: leucine, isoleucine, threonine, alanine, phenylalanine, methionine (the start codon) glycine, glutamic acid (or glutamate) aspartic acid (or aspartate) asparagine, tryptophan, etc.,) I would say that it’s PROBABLY a good bet that it’s a protein of some sort.
To that end, any such concatenated protien or (seemingly endless) polymer could THEN therefore wind-up being the longest word — not by virtue of it’s usefulness but instead, by it’s NON-virtue of concatibility(is that a word?)
Hope you find-out as I would like to know myself. Looks like an interesting one…
l8r,
You are correct, it is a protein. Per Wikipedia, the word means “coat protein, tobacco mosaic virus, Dahlemense strain”. I’d hate to have to pronounce it!
Another lesson of randomness….I could tell you stories, no I think, initiation into serving Latin speaking ‘mass’….is and are, school boys making up to their christian leaders(earthly)….good work…
Its so cute when you lean in when you’re saying the word (i can’t pronounce it at all!!) You’re so hot, i’m your biggest fan!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In Wales, there’s a town named Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllandysiliogogogoch. Tourists who learn to say this get invited out to tea.
Guess what, Im a nurse. The longest word, PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS is a form of pneumonia caused by inhaling fine silica dust, which is typically comes from volcanoes. Its a noncontagious disease that is caused by lung injury, but can lead to permanent lung damage. So…dont go sniffing volcano dust.
Back when I was in 6th grade (early 70′s); our teacher (Mr. Little)
decided to issue a challenge to the class, that if anyone could spell pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis 
within one week of his issuing the challenge; they would get an ‘A’ in spelling for the entire year. 
To his surprise (or maybe not — maybe his intension all along 
) all but one or two of the students accomplished the task perfectly.
One kid (Keith Z. — who later became one of my graduating class’s’ co-valedictorians) got SOOOooooo into the challenge, that he was even able to spell the whole 45-letter word in less than nine seconds (that’s right, approximately five letter per second.)
Ask anyone from my class (even today) to pronounce the word, and they’ll just rattle-it-off for you.
It’s nice to see someone else (besides my class) that knows it too.
Yours; In Obfuscatory Locution,
Tom (aka: drochalsey@yahoo.com)
I think I am going to try and pronounce the longest word.. Its something like 186,000 letters isnt it?
James… …
DUDE 
…
…do the math! A word like pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (45 letters) which I can easily and smoothly rattle-off, takes me 3 seconds (approx. 15 letters per second.) Now, even supposing that you could sustain that sort of run-together-type fluency (or faster — say maybe 18.6 letters per second) that still means that you would almost certainly (in a babble-sounding barrage of mish-mashed words) be constantly intoning this mantra for two-hours:46-minutes:40-seconds. I know Gyuto Budhist Monks that don’t even chant for that long. However, a more conservative estimate (at somewhat realistically sustainable speeds — say maybe three times slower) would have you belting-out this verbosely, bombastic, behemoth of a whopper for grandiloquence, for upwards of eight-hours:20-minutes; after even the first hour of which, you would probably be hoarse to the point of laryngitis and would seem (to all else around you) to be quite ready for the asylum.
That I know of, there is no such word — albeit, I may be wrong.
So, if you ever get the Guiness folks lured over to your house to confirm this (as NOONE is likely to believe it otherwise — anybody could make that claim) please get ahold of me at my e-mail below, as I want to SEE this one for myself first-hand.
More than likely, your either joking around or, in the alternative, you may have mistaken the length of the word (186,000 letters) for the crude approximation of the speed of light (186,000 miles per second.)
In any event; good luck either way.
Yours; In Science And In Jest,
Tom (aka: drochalsey@yahoo.com)
Hello my Dear Teacher,
I was amazed with your pronunciation with the above mentioned word. I won’t try it. You said the longest word is 45 letters long. May I suggest one much longer? It is smiles
After the first letter the word goes on for miles. 
Respectfully,
Your Dear Student
you can hear a pronunciation of “floccinaucinihilipilification” approx 45 seconds into this (‘ighly amusin’) YouTube vid: [QI - Origin of 'Hello' & the Rudeness of Phones]
meow? i think PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS
means something about medicine.
anyway this one video
me, awesome skills.
… May The Force be with You
i wish i good ,but ill never get it wright that floccie phillip thing
Flo……*his tongue felt down*
That was an interesting one.
YOU know that lung word i watched the video after so. hat’s off to you marina. *bow*
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovalcanoconiosis got that from a nurse. see someone else posted it too.
i wanna hear you say that outloud
Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu
real word
i dunno know but doesnt the space make it 2 words
You listed under external links in wikipedia under this word.
Five stars, Marina.
Your diction is flawless.
Ladies & Gentlemen, the longest word in the English language is
PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS
a lung disease.
Give me a kiss, teacher!
I ran into this word in a novel. It’s used in Patrick O’Brian’s “Master and Commander”.
You have cute feet. Well, you might have cute feet. I can really only just barely catch a glimpse of them waggling around back there.
you pronouced it perfect!!!
ok damn.. lmao that is one long word .. i cant prononce it =( ur awesome lol