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Comment posted Floccinaucinihilipilification – huh? by manifold sky.

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”?

manifold sky also commented

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.”

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