Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
OK… I got sooooo many requests for this word, I just had to do it!
The longest word in the English language at 45 letters?
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
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Hello Marina, I was wondering if you could find out why we pronounce the word [both] as if there is and “L” between the “O” and the “T”. Could you find out for me?
The longest word I have ever come across is “Uninanonomonitity”. I could guess at what this word might mean, but I would probably be wrong?
Has LA invented a name for breathing in smoke from the fires?
Well done marina.
When I used to do glass sand-blasting, it was called silocosis. Was that just a shortened term for pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis?
Believe it or not, I have used that word in normal conversation!
Are you to be a Doctor?…”This is the hardcore nerd blog that’s too technical for YouTube. ” NerdWithNoLife: good job……My dad had to have his lungs pump because of the dust caught in the [oats seeds], he operated a combine(threshing machine)…industrialist, both private and custom work…[dust]…HotForWords is the best
interesting lesson!!! i havent heard of this word before!!!
It’s a big, ugly word; but You make it Lovely, Doctor!
Still, you probably ought to monitor here & do these words first (the highest-paying advertising-keywords), followed by Yahoo!’s most-searched searches (top-20’s in I-don’t-know-how-many categories) and then Google’s most-searched searches (top-100).
Then start on the words we (your grateful students) request.
Speaking of requests, I have a couple words (drawn from Your name) that would be good for you to investigate: sea (”Marina” … duh …) and eagle (from ‘of the eagles,’ a root of Orlova)
This lesson reminded me of a PBS documentery I once watched:
SECRETS OF THE DEAD
EDUCATION is good; like all the lessons, just random and comment…
Is that one of those sexy empire (baby doll) tops you’re wearing?
Words like this have no interest to me
Yes, I have to wholeheartedly agree. The entire pneumo- series of words just doesn’t properly excite the intellect. And in this particular instance, the idea of silicone in the lungal area is — well, how shall I put it? — too farfetched for words; it strains credulity. As a matter of fact, after watching this lesson, I can tell you that I found my credulity strained. Oh, sooooo strained. And out of self-defense I will have to temporarily log off and uh, de-strain myself.
Well! I’m back again and… {“OMG, I’m going to have to clean off the desktop. I wonder if the mousewheel still turns.”}
Interesting lesson. Never heard of that word before. Will probably never hear of it again, as I doubt it pops up much in small talk.
Once again, I am going to re-iterate the unique word request I made a couple lessons ago. It appears that I have stumped Marina, so I thought I’d keep putting in the request until she acknowledges it or at least acknowledges that she can’t answer it.
What I wanted to know is what you call a word that remains the same when you rotate it 180 degrees. For instance, the word ‘pod’ remains ‘pod’ if you spin it halfway around. Same goes for the word ‘dollop’… turn it 180 degrees and it still remains ‘dollop’. The word ‘mow’ would be another such word. Question is, what is the word to describe such a ‘rotating’ word? Does such a word for ‘rotating’ words even exist? If not, there should be a word for such. It’s not quite a palindrome, and it’s not quite an ambigram. So what is it?
Maybe I’m wrong, but I am being insistent and persistent about this word request because it is so different. Plus I’m really curious to find the answer out! I thought for sure our trusty teacher would find it interesting too, but still no input from her on the matter. I’ll just have to be patiently persistent until I get some sort of answer. Peace, Errin : )
Your question intrigued me and I think I found an answer and it’s that pod or mow are just inverted palindromes. I could be wrong but here’s the link that sold me on it http://bit.ly/mXDvj
I was number 99999
hy
cool to be apart of the +++ 100K COMMeNTS
Actually do you think you could tell us the definition of the word ‘marijuana’ and smoke a dooby whilst you tell the story
wow
Weird word.
I don’t know if this has been done already. But, I want to know why a type of Sleeveless shirt is called a “Wife Beater”? Where did that name come from?? ITs used so much for that type of shirt and noone thinks twice about it.
Thats crazy i think this word sucks balls! marina your incredible, can you please tell us the origin of the word ’soles’ as in feet (pl) xxx
Marina who astound me more each time i see and hear you.
Hey, I’d like to suggest… Well, not a word but a phrase or pair of phrases.
Tow/toe the line. I see both used but they would appear to have very different meanings despite being so easily confused. Which is the original and when did each come into use?
As for long words, I’ll submit this one:
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliognosophilia
The love of knowledge about long words.
hello everyone! is it true that pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is a disease that mainly killed porn actresses in the US?
You forgot to click on at least six smilies.
oops! i forgot it. thanks alot
(I guess I can post a request here?)
Do you do Business English words?
That’s to say, I’d be interested to know where the word
MINUTES comes from.
It seems to be pluralized? or wait a minute…
yes.
Hope 2 hear from ya.
***WORD REQUEST: DOG***
No known etymological connection with any other Indo-European word for “Dog.” Marina, did you ever find the origin?
Speaking of which, here’s another downside to being an obsessive-compulsive dyslexic insomniac agnostic. I lay awake all last night wondering if there really is a dog!
Hello Evan,
I’m not quite sure this can help you in your search for knowledge, but let it be known that there’s a little aztec legend around about dogs. The legend goes on to tell what happened to a couple of humans, Tata and Nene (Papa and Mama), as the result of their own incompetence.
“When the corn was gone and the ahuehuetl trunk had stopped rocking, Tata and Nene emerged and found that they were saved. Using a drill to start a fire in some small sticks, they roasted a few fish. But this was not appreciated by the gods because it smoked the sky, making it black. Titlacahuan-Tezcatlipoca bawled them out for their error. He then cut their heads off at their necks and sewed them back onto their buttocks. This turned them into dogs (chichime), the first ancestors of all those living in the Fifth Sun. The sky was smoked by these dogs in the year 1-Rabbit.”
- Time and Sacrifice in the Aztec Cosmos, by Kay Almere Read.
I’m not sure this explains the etymology of “dog,” but might be the source of the expression “having one’s head up one’s ass.”
“Chichime” does look a bit like the French “chien” (dog), but the only Nahuatl I know of for sure in English is “chocolate, avocado, tomato.”
hey
you r going a gr8tooooooo job,,,, GOOD JOB, can u help me for a word, pussy, why we use this for pussy cat n women vigina??? please i am waiting for ur answer thankiiii….
Lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypotrimmatosilphioparaomelito-katakechymenokichlepikossyphophattoperisteralektryonoptekephalliokigklopeleiola-goiosiraiobaphetraganopterygon. 183 letters and in greek word λοπαδοτεμαχοσελαχογαλεοκρανιολειψανοδριμυποτριμματοσιλφιοκαραβομελιτοκατακεχυμενοκιχλεπικοσσυφοφαττοπεριστεραλεκτρυονοπτοκεφαλλιοκιγκλοπελειολαγῳοσιραιοβαφητραγανοπτερύγων. 171 letter. what that word mean??
Lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypotrimmatosilphioparaomelitokatakechymenokichlepikossyphophattoperisteralektryonoptekephalliokigklopeleiolagoiosiraiobaphetraganopterygon
” “Liddell and Scott translate this as “name of a dish compounded of all kinds of dainties, fish, flesh, fowl, and sauces.” ”
The only time I was ever admitted to a hospital was a “dusty lung” kind of thing. I was working at a lumber yard in Las Vegas, and I had just finished loading 90 lb. bags of concrete on a 5′ high truck bed. As I was walking away, I stretched down to pick up some trash, and WHAM! It felt like someone had dorp-kicked me square in the chest. Despite being in my late twenties, I knew I was having a heart attack; all the noticable symptoms matched up perfectly. The guy who drove me to the ER knew I was going to die, as well. It turned out I had collapsed a lung. Five days in the hospital, and I was good as new. That was also my only experience with morphine; now that was some good stuff, man
Dictionary fascists
What kind of greedy ulterior motive is involved in this so called word, Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis? Pneumonou…. is not a real word because it’s neither in common usage, nor is it used by the professionals in the health world (that’s a guess based on the fact that just to use the word would cause listeners to loose interest in the subject and make a silly face, plus there’s a high risk factor inherent in the word since to say the word incorrectly would make an otherwise intelligent geek sound like a pretender.
I would like to know the origin of the word “Belly”
I FELL IN THE POND!! it was icy and i thought it could hold my weight i went to put my second foot on and my first foot went right through… The first thing I said was “ MY UGGS!!!!
You have got to laugh really
I think it would make a good story for YT
If only someone had filmed it… Welll I am not going to do it again
You wear Uggs?
That would been funny to see!
I do wear UGGs!
But not the usual girly ones..
I wear the ones for men
Or gravediggers
http://www.uggaustralia.com/ProductDetails.aspx?gID=m&categoryID=223&productID=5485&model=Beacon
Mine are obsidian
I went mental… They should be done drying by now. But sadly the same can’t be said for my jeans..
I think is Gorby hungry! He want food! haha
Hwk: I guess, normally I use words like counterintuitive, extraordinarily etc. I love how expansive English is, there are so many more words when compared to other languages and so may definitions for each word…
My spellcheck has this word with a ‘K’ instead of the final “C” used here:
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis; but I’ll cede (no pun) to HFW here and spell it with a ‘C’.
BUT, can’t we make this word longer like using the prefix anti-: antipneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis as in anticough,
OR, maybe the suffix -esque, for symptoms that are similar:
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosisesque?
Or, should we run from this word
and never look back?
Hello, are you going to celebrate Christmas Eve tonight ?
HUH??
Orthodox celebrate Christmas on 7th January and New Year on 14th according to the Gregorian calendar, but 25th and 1st according to the Julian calendar.
( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox_Church )
С Рождеством Христовым!
It’s a bit early (at least according to Central European Time), but, hey, anyway: Ваистину се роди !!
Христос се роди!
Novi Sad will be Happy tonight!!!
word request: Hi Marina, I am a big sci-fi fan and I am interested in the origin of the word plasma, and why it is used to refer to blood and super hot gas/charged particles often found or referred to in sci-fi. Thanks
robots,no lungs the Wired site is cool, they said this video got yank from you tube
quite creepy but cool
and he made the robots out of Barbie dolls, G.I. Joe action figures and other toys
when the word Animism is spokan with the Pronunciation dialect of a smokin hot beauty added does it sound erodick
“Animism Grrawr” ‘;..;’
By the way this image http://img380.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mytohot4wordspic2hi5.jpg is for you to do with as you like i drew this wile watching you and thought Wow Smokin Hot!
Hey shawman: good job…Marina is a centaur or rather born Sagittarius
That really is a long word. It seems like five words strung together though.
I also wanted to add that when you say ” Be good” at the end. You are also saying the letter “K” in American Sign Language. It must be a sublimnal response for us to agree with you to “be good”.
word request: what’s the origin of shark?
Blimey! What do we have today? A genuine golden-coated Lady Orlova?
You look as sharp as a gold bullion fresh out of the NYC Federal Reserve vault, shining under the sun. Just like a poker table Las Vegas lady, playing the roulette, these two gold-plated chain sprockets of yours gleaming under the artificial light, like a turboed superbike ready to pop a wheelie on Sunset Boulevard.
And you bring along this silly scientific syntax serpent with you today? This is a highfalutin piece of work indeed, señorita. It will surely give hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia to all the little kids in the schools. I’d just cut it to pieces, smash it around, shorten it out, symplify it. Pneumosillivolnosis seems fair enough to me. Fair enough to be remembered and spoken in a bar after a couple of drinks.
I added in the word wrap plug-in.. but I seem to remember it breaking something…. if you guys can find what it breaks, let me know.
One big happy Epiphany Eve
Why did not any queens be reported on that magical visit. Incense for a pretty smelly word request!!!
It breaks my heart.
what does the plug-in do ?
You have changed the padding slightly havent you
LOL PT9
“It breaks my heart”
Oh no.. is the padding changed???? Arrghh.. that means I changed it by mistake. What padding are you talking abu James?
I don’t know if its the padding or marign
but look at the right edge of your comment. I am actually editing a video at the mo, but if you leave it then I will sort it out, while I am there I will look at the blockquote thing as well
I think I fixed it. Thanks for pointing it out. I added an overflow: hidden thing yesterday to try to fix the long words, but it messed up the margins or padding. I removed them and I think we’re fine again.
Marina’s padding is [insert your joke here].
Well Marina I choose not to use too many longs and complicated words in a conversation….
Could you please find the origin of the word “Misanthropic” ?
You know Marina, when in doubt, turn to Bugs Bunny for some interesting words. An example would be “amscray” as in “get outta here.” You’re a Bugs Bunny fan. Any other words come to mind?
BTW, Bugs Bunny was and still is my favorite cartoon character (all the cartoons today aren’t as original and funny). Looney Toons are the best!
What a maroon!
“Pardon me Mac” “Ya big galoot”
Another Bugs Bunny relation: Acme, and anvil
I love your vids and explanations! I usually never request anything from anyone, but… what with the NFL playoffs going on and the Super Bowl fast approaching – could you please explain the term “Touchdown!“? “Field goal” kinda makes sense, but touchdown leaves me to scratch my head. Continue making your great videos!
In Rugby, you do not get any points until the ball is touched down in the endzone. So since football developed from that sport the word carried over.
Thank you for doing the BIG word I requested Marina. I love the new opening graphics featuring your beautiful blue eyes and I’m happy to see advertising on your Youtube videos (to help you pay for $200 books). Maybe I’ll send your office a free (signed and numbered) copy of my new novel, Edge of Heaven, in which so many people die of
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
WORD REQUEST: acatalepsy
Well Teacher. I have been requesting these words for along time, either by themself or as a group. So here they are again…
PHANTASMAGORIA
MISANTHROPIC
EXTEMPORANEOUS
CIRUMLOCUTION
BACCHANALIAN
ANTHROPOMORPHIC
HYPOTHETICAL
VERISIMILITUDE
So. Do you think you can find out about one or two for me.
Thanks.
I use words like this mainly when I’m writing.
This was one of the best shows Marina.
The intro and the finale were beautiful.
It kept me wondering what you were going to do next.
Retro Marina with the flashback and the unpolished show- I loved it.
HW: I use several but only because I have to and not for conversation.
parsec is the longest word I use.
That is a whole lot longer than angstrom.
How do u change ur profile pic??!
My friends and I have been trying to say this word for twenty mintues!
the longest word i frequently use in day to day conversation is prolly: Construction flabbergasted (is that a word) or exhasperation… Most common word I use is “like” as a filler. I’m trying to stop, but once started it is really quite difficult.
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Try your local “fillers anonymous” 12 steps for help …..
Go to Global Avatars to change avatar …..
Gorgeous
I wanted to request the word Guido. I want to know the origin of it.
Thank you
Why can’t you do the word philanthropist or philanthropy?? Or how about the word Robot?
Word request;
I was watchin some damn show on PBS,some dude on an investigative romp around India,they were talking about Sandscrit and mentioned an ancient drink called “Soma” or something like that,,,one old duffer(archaeologist I think)said it was made with “Poppy,Cannabis,and,Ephedra”. Could Ya maybe check the spelling of “Soma” and let it be My request? I think,since it is from such ancient language,it might be fun for Ya.
tryant
Hey capman911!! How the heck Ya doin these days?!
Have Ya been treating the owly receptionists to some humor to brighen their day?
Or just snap their head off for fun?! 
Fine Tyrant, I used to ring their necks like a chicken, but lately I just give them an old kick in the nads.
What was that song?,,”The Rooster” maybe? It said “They come to snuff the rooster but he ain’t gonna die”..
Have a good one man.
tryant
word request: typography
this word will change your life.
comic sans not good
bye bye
I’ve got the breathing disease,heck,I’ve got *all* the respiratory diseases after smoking cigs and such since 1974!!
Not to worry tho,working drywall and general construction creates plenty of dust to protect My lungs from the smoke,,when that becomes too much,the tar,nicotine and whatever else protects My lungs from the dust! How could I lose?!?!(Don’t answer that)
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Awww Marina,now You should *know* for sure,the longest word I use is “Oooooouuuuuuuuuuuccccchhhhhhiiiiiiieeeeee”! Whenever I see/hear You!
Yours truly(and a tad bit goofy) tryant
look this one up: mesothelioma
Isn’t that what Ya get from breathing asbestos?
As a kid I swam at the pool alot,late 60s or early 70s they enclosed it with a steel structure then sprayed the interior with grey stuff,for years it used to fall from the roof/beams into the water all Us town kids swam in,it was,I’m sure,asbestos insulation.Probably not much better for Our health than swimming downstream from a chemical plant!
Marina why is some of the words going out of the comment boxes instead of doing a word wrap?
Well, how about the shortest word, then?
Word Request: I
Why do people use I to refer to themselves?
I’m not answering,just guessing. Maybe the roman numeral for 1,,I,,has some bearing.
Afterthought,,,isn’t “A” just as short as “I”,and,isn’t “a” considered a word? Heck,*I* dunno *a* dang thing!
tryant(currently sober)
GOOD ONE nighteye. I would also be interested in why it’s that way in Russian too. The last letter of the Cyrilic alphabet (if memory serves me) is “Ya” (which is the backwards-looking R to us “Я”. By itself (again, if memory serves) it means “I” in Русский (Russian).
Marina, that’s your neck-of-the-woods… …what do YOU say, o’ wise, polyglottymous, sylphish one of intelligence tautamount to her pulchritudity??
Do you know how long is the shortest place name in the world?
Word Request : Orgasm.
Thanks Marina!!
Being in research, mine would probably be something like sonoluminescence or magnetohydrodynamics… …but that aside; here’s a piece from the internet that reminds me of the research I did in 6th grade from the “Guiness book” after my teacher issued a challenge to our class concerning pneumono – - – - sis (see my previous comment under floccin – - – - tion.)
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LONGEST WORD
According to the Guiness book of World Records, the longest word ever to
occur in a literary work has to do with a fricassee, with 17 sweet and sour
ingredients, including brains, honey vinegar, fish, pickles, and ouzo. The
word appears in The Ecclesiazusae, a satirical comedy by Aristophanes
(443-388? BC), an Athenian playwright. In Greek, the word is 170 letters,
transliterated into English it is 182 letters.
Lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypotrimmatosilphioparaomelitokatakechymenokichlepikossyphophattoperisteralektryonotekephalliokigklopeleiolagoiosiraiobaphetraganopterygon.
THAT’S the one I remember from the ‘74 edition of “Guiness Book.”
Any suggestions… …comments… …Marina???
BTW, was nice to see my nic in the vid for todays word, thanks.
l8r,
Sorry,
Didn’t know that it was going to go UNDER the ads. Here it is broken down for display sake.
Lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypotrimmatosilphio –
paraomelitokatakechymenokichlepikossyphophattoperisteralektryonoteke –
phalliokigklopeleiolagoiosiraiobaphetraganopterygon.
Word request: Phobia
how do you say supercalafragillisticexpealadocious.. I use that one daily…
Here’s how you say it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3zAbQ0aMK8&feature=related
thanks that was a great vid clip…I love the nostalgia..I think I will put it on my facebook for today
Word Request : Orgasm
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Man that one went off the page instead of doing a word wrap.
bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb
bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb
Smokey I can scroll across and go past the adds and recent comments and still see my A’s way out in the wild blue yonder.
See how many of the 100 most common words in the English language you can guess in 5 minutes
Fun game, report your total.
In some of my history papers, I need to very specific, so I will write some bigger words. I try to avoid that, though. My favorite historical writer is Samantha Power. She discusses some very complicated topics, such as 20th century genocide, yet she maintains a down to earth writing style. I try to learn much from her writing.
My favorite historical writer is Sarah Vowell. I think she is a bit of an attractive woman.
the longest word i use is, “aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”…
i think it’s pretty self-explanatory…
btw, you look exceptionally elegant in this video…
How did you get all the way over there
?
by expanding my vocabulary…
Mine is longer than your Annudder. Look up at my comment.
(yes, she does, but the still makes her look sunburned)
Do you have hydrophobia, like Wylie in the B.C. comic strip?
The volcanic ash cloud in this vid looks like the Mount Saint Helens eruption of 1980. I was 30 miles away on that day, fortunately to the northwest, outside the blast zone. But I do remember the smell of the dust.
hello Marina!
thanks
I was wondering if you could tell me where the phrase “cream of the crop” comes from.
Can you do the word, “Remember” please : )
thank you in advance : D
Word request for Technocracy or Technate
It dates back to the 1930’s
***Gwaith cartref / Homework***
Dyma’r gair hiraf a rydw i’n defnyddio wrth sgwrsio:
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllandysiliogogogoch (a town in North Wales)
When I’m travelling in Wales and chatting with the locals, I try to casually drop this into conversation (”I was travelling through Llanfair(etc.) the other day…”) This usually gets me invited to tea.
I can say that
Llongyfarchiadau!!! (Congratulations!)
Anyone who has read this would probably not be impressed. However, you can use Google Earth to see that the area is not that dreary and visit overhead these landmarks described in WP:
• Train station (53° 13′ 15.43″N 4° 12′ 33.63″W)
• Wool shop (53° 13′ 16.18″N 4° 12′ 37.58″W)
• St. Mary’s Church (53° 13′ 03.74″N 4° 11′ 33.34″W)
• M of A’s Column (53° 13′ 14.96″N 4° 11″ 48.39″W)
When I read of some place I like to “fly” there on GE, walk around and try to locate landmarks. I can’t wait until they have Street View all over the world so that you can stand just about everywhere and look in a 360° circle.
Riddle me this.
As I was going to St. Ives,
I met a man with seven wives.
Every wife had seven sacks,
Every sack had seven cats,
Ever cat had seven kits;
Kits, cats, sacks, wives,
How many were going to St. Ives?
Only one for sure (the speaker). The answer depends on whether the man & company are also going to St. Ives.
all of them, including you or only you.
None. They were all dead, the poor sods.
The longest word I use in normal conversation is Praetertranssubstantiationalistically. I just get eye rolls from this though..
German language is also notorious for concantenating words into longer ones (”portmanteau” words). Mark Twain poked fun at the (German) language for excess portmanteauing.
one “normal conversation” long word :
diversification (15)
I would hazard a guess somewhere around 15 is in the range of 99 percentile word length distribution for colloquial lanuage. Stats are tabulated on word length distribution for the various different languages. “The Distribution of Word Length in Technical Russian” (Oettinger, 1954) stops at 18.
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WORD REQUEST: abliguration
Homework: Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmm……
disenfranchisement? I use a lot of polysylabic words, Uh huh!
Marina looks really
tastygood as a “golden” girl. Like one of James Bond’s women…(Ahem) I want to point out that I was not on the list of the
many who requested this word. I would never ask Marina for anything so long.
There is a word that is longer still it is Aequeosalinocalcalinoceraceoaluminosocupreovitriolic fifty two letters long
What is the origin of this one?
I was in the Guinness book of world records
could you please do the orgin of the word Bra Thank You
Hello There! Can you explain us what is “UMQUHILE” and “TITTUP”? Thanks!
OK Marina I’ll take your word for it
Someone making words that big is just trying to be difficult . I like your choice of music at 0. 39 
I recently heard that the word orgasm means “a little death”. Is that true?
Not necessarily
http://tinyurl.com/8artoe
Wow! I just saw iJustine on tv in a commercial for mozy.com
Going only by Captainjacks gravitar pic I think I may have found his true identity …It would explain the yacht!
Dear HotForWords,
My Grandfather on my Mom’s side had some thing like this. You see, he worked in a mine all of his life, and was breathing the air and it was dusty we could imagine. Anyways, in the hospital his lungs were filling up with liquid, and the doctors could not get it out faster than it was filling. So they sent him home to die…
At home, he prayed to God, and Miraculously he got better. The Doctors still cannot explain how…
Your Student,
ThoughtOnFire
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Hello, I watch you online all the time and you are very interesting.
I would like to know where the word HOBO originated and is it a bad thing to call someone a hobo?
It comes from Hoe Boy. Migrant farmers riding the trains during the depression.
I tryto avoid using large words, I’m always afraid I’ll use the wrong word or use it in the wrong context or pronounce it wrong. Plus most of my friends are easily confused, so I just try to use simple expressions. I think it’s great that Marina started using the old theme music in her videos and putting bloopers at the end. I also think its itneresting that she started doing it about a week or so after I posted a comment requesting that she do that exact thing. I wonder if that’s why she did it?
You’ll never know but just maybe, that is why.
Can you please tell me the origin of Nguyen
Vietnamese for “Jones”!
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WORD REQUEST: Til the cows come home (ok phrase actually)
This has always puzzled me because it literally means never but the cows come home every day before dark.
Hotforwords must investigate!
It’s the fact that the cows come home so late in the day that has allowed the meaning to be stretched to mean, if not never, then at least a long time.
I have a fairly exstensive vocabulary but unfortunately my memory rivals that of a fruit fly, so actually remebering the longest word that I use in normal conversation would be next to impossible if not down-right indeterminable.Ha! I would also like to see the origins of much smaller words like: we or wee or even weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!! Cecily M
The longest known word. Pronounce this one Marina.
Methionylglutaminylarginytyrosylglutamylserylleucylphenylalanylalanylglut-
aminylleucyllysylglutamylarginyllysylglutamylglycylalanylphenylalanyvalyl-
prolylphenylalanylvalythreonylleucylglycylaspartylprolyglycylisoleucylglut-
amylglutaminylserylleucyllysylisoleucylaspartylthreonylleucylisoleucylglut-
amylalanylglycylalanylaspartylalanylleucylglutamylleucylglycylglycylisoleu-
cylprolylphenylalanylserylaspartylprolylleucelalanylaspartyglycylprolythreo-
nylisoleucylglutamiylasparaginylalanylthreonylleucylarginylalanylphenylalan-
ylalanylglycylvalyltheonylprolylalanylglutaminylcysteinylphenylalanygllutam-
ylmethionylleucyalanylleucylisoleucylarginylglutaminyllysylhistidylprolylthre-
onylisoleucylpriIylisoleucylglycylleucylleucylmethionyltyrosylalanylasparag-
inylleucylvalyphenylalanylasparaginyllysylgyycylisoleucylaspartylglutamylph-
enylalanyltyrosylalanylgutaminyllcysteinylglutamyllysylvalylglycylavlylaspart-
ylserylvalylleucylvalylalanylaspartylvalyprolylvalylglutaminylglutamyllserylal-
anyprolyphenylalanylarginylglutaminylalanylalanylleucylarginylhistidylaspara-
ginylvaylalanylprolylisoleucylphenylalanylisoleucylcysteinylprolylprolylaspart-
ylalanylaspartylaspartylaspartylleucylleucylarginyglutaminylisoleucylalanyyls-
eryltyrosylglycylarginylglycyltyrosylthreonyltyrosylleucylleucylserylarginylal-
anylglycylvalythreonylglycylalanylglutamylasparaginylarginylanylalanylleucyl-
prolylleucylaspaaginylhistidylleucylvaylalanyllysylleucyllysylglutamyltyrosyla-
saraginylglycylphenylalanylglycylisoleucylalanylprolylaspartylglutaminylvalyl-
lysylalanylalanylisoleucylaspartylalanylalanyglycylalanylalanyglycylalanylisol-
eucylserylglycyserylalanylisoleucylbalyllsylisoleucylisoleucylglutamyyylgluta-
minylhistidylasparaginylisoleucylglutamylprolyglutamyllysylmethionylleucyla-
lanylalanylleucyllysylvalylphenylalabylvalylglutaminlylprolylmethionyllysylala-
nylalanylthreonylarginylserine
It’s the scientific name for Tryptophan synthetase, which is a protein containing 267 amino acids
. It contains 1,846 letters. Take that, Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
Woooo… are you serious?? That’s equal to a long paragraph in my essays (just imagine if double-spaced)
REALLY!! THATS NOTHING!!!!
google
“titin”
click the 3rd one (if it doesn’t work press cached)
THAT is the longest word…
Yep 34350 is a long something. I looks like nothing but a bunch of mixed up letters.
But one heck of a long word.
Its not..
its 186,000
You must have read something different than I did. I only saw that amount.
I found the word. The other one was something different, it was the protein code.. Your right it has 186,000 letters.
Your wrong, it is actually 189,819 letters long. I got that from the second link from that word. I doubt that Marina would even try to pronounce it
I wonder how long it took her to say that cromulent word.
From my perspective THIS is the longest word
.
.
Don’t forget about
Acetylseryltyrosylserylisoleucylthreonylserylprolylserylglutaminylphenylalanylvalyl-phenylalnelleucylserylserylvalyotriptophylalanylaspartylprolylisoleucylglutamylleucyl-lencyllasparaginylvalylcysteinythreonylserylserylleucylglycllasparatinylglutaminylphe-nylalanylglutaminylthreonylglutaminylglutaninylalanylarginylthrseonylthreonylglutam-inylvalylglutaminyglutaninylphenylalanylserylghlutaminylvalyltryptophyllysylrolylphen-ylalaylprolyglutaminylserylthreonylvalylarginylphunylalanylprolylglycylaspartylvalylty-rosyllsvslvalyltyrosylargiyltyosvlasparaginylalanylvalylleusylaspartylprolylleucylisole-ucylthreonylalnylleucylleucylglycyltreonylphnylalanylaspartylthreonylarginlasparagin-ylarginylisoleucylislleucylglutammylvalylglutamylasparaginylglutaminylglutaminylsury-lprolylthreonylthreonylalanyoglutamylthreonylleucylaspartylalanylthreonylarginylargi-nylvalylaspartylaspartylalanylthreonylvalylalanylisoleucylarginylserylalanylasparagin-ylisoleucylasparaginylleucylvallasparaginylglutamylleucylvalylarginylglycylthreonylgl-ycylleucyltyrosylasparaginylglutaminylasparaginylthreonylphenylalanylglutamylseryl-methionylserylglycylleucylvalyltryptophylthreonylserylalanylprolylalanylserine
The scientific name for the Tobacco Mosaic Virus (1,185 letters)
Are you sure you spelled that correctly? I think that in one part the L is in the wrong place and a V should be a B. Please go over it again and take a very close look. When you find it, please show me. If you do not respond with the correction within 24 hours, you will have to write this word on the blackboard 100 times. If you don’t, Marina will make you eat a dozen raw eggs, 6 pickled eggs, a jar of sauerkraut, 3 garlic cloves, two cans of cold beans and a 6 pack of Molson Canadian beer… and “sent to your room early”.
If we can agree that the reason for words in our language is to communicate effectively, then I would say that words of this length are contrary to the goal of communications and are more likely to succeed at the goal of obfuscation.
There needs to be a rule to prevent longer and longer words ad infinitum. I propose CampKohler’s Law: A word is long enough if it can repeat itself internally without being detected by the average reader. For example, if you can see that antiflocuamentalismantiflocuamentalism has internally repeated, why, go ahead and invent a longer word; if you can’t, it’s long enough and you needn’t bother.
Wow… that’s one long word… maybe you could do a simpler word like, “juice,” something we all can relate to
yum.. 
Longest place name: Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaunga-horonukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu
Now look what you have done!!! messing up the layout!! I NEVER EVER have done that
How do they come up with these names?? Hahaha
OH! I guess Marina broke it in half for me.
Is it true that in the original version of the Stanford-Binet IQ test the lowest three rankings were labeled ‘moron’, ‘idiot’, and ‘imbecile’? Where did these three words come from?
Eric M
Larry, Curly and Moe
What about Shemp (the fourth [forgotten] Stooge)?
…and there was another one, too (#5 ! )
Hmmmmm…. off to find some links – heh heh!
Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Shemp Howard, Joe Besser and Curly Joe Derita. Were all of the stooges.
The History of the 3 Stooges
Uhhh… Jacky Gleason???
Wow, that is a long word. I have a couple of requests for words. The first is one letter off from my last name, Mallinger. The word is Malinger and people keep on calling me Malinger by accident due to mispronouncing my name. I know what a Malinger is and I most certainly am not one. I was just wondering where the word came from. Also, the word Glib comes to mind as one that Tom Cruise had used at some point. But long before that, it was used in a 1000 year old tale from Japan called the tale of genji by Murasaki Shikibu. I don’t think the word is 1000 years old, it was used by the person who translated it.
wow Marina you looked so different back in the day – still beautiful though
so,those of us who speak greek didn’t need translation for this word
exept for the silicon and the volcano
but hey,I’m a geologist that speaks greek,so…
hmm , mostly i speak chinese , but in english , i try not to use words longer than 3 morphemes
“Let’s go” through the translator-and-back comes
out as “We go now”
Imagine a patient at a hospital trying to explain his “Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis” . He’ll be out of breath from saying the word rather than caused by it
.
Hello,
To elaborate on the tweet about fitting this word on the website: The issue is that while this word’s main page can almost accommodate this word, today, the third column on the HotForWords homepage cannot accommodate it, and, tomorrow, the middle column is unlikely to be able to accommodate it either. At least for IE6!
The solution might be to introduce a soft-hyphens after each of this word’s syllables. The HTML symbol for the soft-hyphen is ­ [ampersand followed by the four characters shy;]. In general, the browser would render the soft-hyphen invisible; but if the browser needed to break a line that lacked white-space to break at, it would break at a soft-hyphen after rendering the soft-hyphen as a regular hyphen.
–Hs4Mm
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Hey check out Marina on the Cover of Cool English Magazine In Recent Posts.
h/w: unscrupulous
Hello Marina,
Very cute 
I usually try to talk at the level of my listener(s). Unfortunately I do not talk to any one that uses big, long words. The longest word that I know I have used is: Antidisestablishmentarianism. I have watched your lesson on that word as well. Maybe we can start a new trend and have you research short words like ” a ” or ” I “. Thanks 4 the knowledge & BGood!
I love your facial expressions
n1961
Oh that’s the volcanic term I was trying to remember….. a pyroclastic flow.
If one is coming at you, you should always try to outrun it. It will get you, of course, but the idea is to avoid being in the following situation:
{animalntaz stands before the Pearly Gates.}
St. Peter: “You didn’t even try?”
animalntaz: “Well, uh… um…”
Yeah, I already know you should outrun them. But to my understanding, on rare occassions, some of them are to fast to outrun.
Homework
The longest word I have used is hippopotamus. Anything longer and I can’t pronounce it! I like the new intro also! 
Marina you’re pure GOLD in this lesson!
Or maybe Hiphopopotamus.
Funny!
seeing this makes me want to film me saying the longest word ever tomorrow. Its 189,000 letters long… I hope i have enough memory in my camera!
Looks like I won’t. It’s so big it has crashed notepad..
Great lesson
Homework: I try not to use a lot of big words. They tend to confuse people, so sometimes I have to dumb myself down.
eg instead of asinine I say dumb or stupid
instead of facetious I say humorous
instead of inebriated I say drunk
This was suppose to be here instead of down there………….\/
awful and thats 
egregious!
This is
Malapropism is my middle name because I can’t Say it Right.
At work, instead of tastes good, you say nutricious?
Hey Marina! I have a request. I was wondering what the origin of Margarita was. I never knew it.
I would have been 69th if it wasn’t for me not being able to sign in
Sorry Marina, It just sorted itself… You can delete that thread now.
James… what happened to the video you made for me? Also… Lady Orlova here has some catching up to do on my Christmas/Birthday gift responses!!!!
I will get to them this week.
YAY!!! YOU GOT IT!!
The video is still there…
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Up0FwBW4o4M&feature=channel_page
I love that song in the video, who sings it?
It is called
I see girls
by
Studio B
OMG !!!То слово дает мне головную боль!!! Где водочка??? Вы управляя мной к питью!!!!!!!!!! LOL!!!!
Really! I don’t think I ever CURED a headache by drinking…but I got a lot of them that way!
Now you know how I felt studying Russian case endings!
Stupid word…not funny at all.
hmm
Dear Hot for Words,
I would like to request the origins of the word LUDICROUS. I always thought it meant the same thing as the word RIDICULOUS, but surely they must be different.
Thank you and have a good new year.
The calendar is great!
Love, rol1134
Ludicrous Speed!
Thank you…Thank you…Thank you… for doing this word. My reply button is just about broken. Whew! Now I can get some work done.
The longest word i sey is: (haha)
Actualy i dont remember!
Marina how can you sey that word and remember it?
the word
PWN 
as like pwned (”You just got pwned 
)
I already know, but think that others dont. So?
it referes to owned and we all know what that means… so if you could investigate and find out how did this term came into life
That got me thinking of one of my favorite videos: Ode To Pwning
My 13-year-old says it’s short for “perfectly owned.” Like if you’re in a kung fu match and end up knocked out without ever landing a blow.
Awesome video, Marina. I am impressed that you can even say the word, let alone give the origin of it. Also, thanks for putting such high production values in this. Your scrolling pictures introducing each words are really fun to see, as well as the little added pop-ups. I love your sense of humor. Keep up the great work.
Hey, I just did a quick voting check. Marina votes are doing great. I just
pesteredasked twenty of my close friends to get their mice clicking. Looking good and the day just got going. Next chart update tomorrow morning around 4 AMDon’t forget to vote AGAINST Philip DeFranco. He seems to be taking the lead.
Isn’t the contest over already?
Hi nathan19,
No, the “contest” is not over and will probably continue forever. Read about the rules about the contest here.
You can vote for Marina here every day.
Also, down-vote (red arrow) the person in front of her.
http://wired.reddit.com/sexygeeks_2008/?s=top
I figured from part of the word, that it had something to do with volcanic ash. But I blanked out on the “pneumono” part and confused it with other words for memory or mechanical air pressure.
Actually, if you think about the mechanism your lungs use to move air in and out, it ( mechanical air pressure ) DOES make sense. The debris that blocks some lung area from effectively exchanging oxygen for CO2 means the lungs must work harder so that the remaining area can get the air needed. When you are working and need more volume, your lungs must work even harder, and it should be obvious your max breathing effort will be reached sooner ( at a lower work level ) so that you can’t work as hard as you could before.
yes its a real word because all words were made up at one time or another,as long as it describes what it is intended to describe.i would be hard pressed to figure out what the longest word i use every day was maybe ill look in to it on a later date.
Marina, thank you for finally doing this video.
My mouse was getting worn out for pointing everyone to your comment back in April. Phew! Now, I only have to point them to the Words List.
I wholly agree PK.
Thank you so much for finally doing a lesson with this word!
I am proud to report that I don’t think I have ever counted the number of letters in words I use in normal conversation ( or abnormal conversation ). I occaissionally count letters doing a crossword ( or other ) puzzle, but that is arguably different.
I also rarely use a word I can’t spell ( altough I make my fair share of typos ).
I would argue ( in the forensic sense ) that a word made up for the sole purpose of being a long word is not a word made up for any other reason than effective communications. Scientists will invent new words to distinguish between similar but different properties of something. For example, most would probabaly understand what I mena if I used the word ‘elastic’. But there is a difference between stretching and compressing a material, and also the ability to resist permanent deformation, and an Engineer will also create words to aid in the measurement of these properties. These words DO aid in communications so I would opine that they are in fact words. ( In Wikipedia look up Young’s Modulus and you’ll get a good idea of what I mean. )
The longest word I use is furryfatfourleggedfoodbags… in reference to the dogs and cats that I talk to.
People make up words all the time. The word “Muggle” j.k rowling made up in Harry Potter books just made it’s way into the Webster dictionary as someone without any skill or unique abilities. Also, the word “truthiness” as stated by Operah, also made it’s way into everyday language. In general, there have been several “editions” to the library to accomodate everyday terminology and jargon, such as the dictionary of slang and the urban dictionary. Ironically, the average American dictionary has decreased by about 10,000 words since 1930’s – 1960’s. The reason for this is that less and less people apply root, Romantic languages when developing a new word. With that being said, I must say that today’s “pneumono…” word is more of a word than “Muggle”.
The longest words I use on a regular basis are “cappuccino”, “indubitably”, “incandescence”.
Speaking of incandescence, Marina you looked absolutely radiant today.
she did shine
didnt she 
B.B.
Yes, she did, just like the shiny apple
I’m about to give our dear teacher.
Words like muggle mean whatever you wand them to mean.
Great Service Marina,
Thanks for pointing the students to a cheap source for textbooks.
And just in time for the new term.
Gonna have to really think about the longest term I normally use.
I like communication and it doesnt make any sense to use terms the other person wouldn’t understand. And I don’t have any need to make them feel bad by talking over their heads. Bush doesn’t have this problem.
This is
awful and thats 
egregious! 
This lung disease sounds like Valley Fever
Marina,
Excellent video. You had me on the edge of my seat again.
You must have been reading my mind. I was just watching your BIG WORDS video the other day, which I happen to love as one of my favorites, and I was wondering about that web site as I was thinking of getting some books.
hello PK
What happened to your white knite Gravatar 
PLEASE 
B.B.
I thought you were going to change back to it
as a favor to us all
Kewl, you want the trusty loyal galant white knight in shining armor back? Why not, I have this urge to rescue someone.
So, more betta noaw?
Clear your cache to see the old me.
Grin!
Dichlorodifluoromethane
Marina, This is about the longest word I have ever tried to use in everyday speech, other then that maybe hippopotamus or maybe elephant is the longest in every day speech, I am no geek obviously (not wealthy) and no nerd (although I am socially inept) because the details of technology don’t interest me enough to learn them.
Hey John let me tell you a little something about Dichlorodifluoromethane or R12. If a vehicle is running and the R12 gets into the carburetor the exhaust coming out of the tail pipe turns into phosgene gas which is extremely deadly. That is one of the reasons R 12 is rarely used any more and vehicles are switched to R34A. Plus R 12 is very bad for the atmosphere. Phosgene is formed by the combustion and the heat of the engine and mixing with the carbon monoxide that is a result of burned gas.
That was a state secret! Off to the salt mine with you! and a grain a salt a day for pay!
Right on Capman911,
You should teach FireCaptain classes.
I just bought “Chemistry of Hazardous Materials” so that I can better understand the materials I see and work with every day.
Whenever you decide to teach- I’ll sign up.
Homework: Mostly, I am at work. Most of my fellow employees have trouble understanding more than mono-syllabic grunts and simple hand gestures. I count myself lucky to have you and my fellow students to have an actual conversation with.
Same for me. My wife still has trouble with anything of more than a couple of syllables and most of our friends are Thai or Phillipinas married to taciturn Scots.
Hey Bob,
Check this out, and the one before that. I’m going for 50 words next.
What do you think?
Tis a shame – we sometimes have potluck dinners, and I would love to make some homemade alphabet soup for them, but it would be such a watse as I know they would never get the fullest benefit from it.
Hey Fianchetto,
Have you seen this?
Dear совершенная Marina, I’m sorry you had to spend $219 for a book just because of word requests from people too cheap or lazy to look up the origins, themselves! I hope that expensive book will be useful to you for many other of your videos. After all, you probably need to sell many dozens of calendars to make $219 in profit. It’s difficult for all of us to earn money.
What a beautiful necklace and bracelet/bangle you wore. You never wore much jewelry in previous videos, and it’s nice to see you occasionally wear jewelry. My mother warned my sister not to wear jewelry very often, because others might try to steal it. Your dress is very beautiful.
So, the long word I use most frequently in writing to you is “beautiful.” I know there are many substitute words, like pretty, lovely, cute, neat, outtasight, wayaottasight, pultritudeniness, attractive, easy-on-the-eyes, charming, tasty, affectionate, delicious, embraceable, hugable, perfect, and not only all those, you said you don’t bite!
I’ll keep using the word, beautiful, in writing to you.
С влюбленностью к Марине. seesixcm6
seesixcm6: your comments are a joy to read!
Oooh can you do Future?
to pull apart
This word seldom see serious use, but it illustrates the lenghts to which innovation using foreign word elements may be taken.
It is made up of a number of elements, many of which are already familiar to you by themselves or as they appear as parts of other words.
These include pneumon (which is also part of the name for the lung disease pneumonia), ultra “extremely” (as in ultraconservative), microscopic, silic (as in the word silicon), volcan, and -osis (as in tuberculosis or neurosis) “medical condition” or “disease”.
The most unfamiliar element of the word is coni, which means “dust” in specialized terms such as conidium, a type of spore, and coniology “study of the health effects of dust”.
It is also related to the element cin “ashes” in incinerate.
So pneumon-o-ultra-microscopic-silic-o-volcan-o-coni-osis literally means “lung-extremely-microscopic-silicon-volcanic-dust-disease” or, to rearrange things a bit more sensibly, “lung disease (caused by) microscopic volcanic silicon dust”.
Old farmers Jethro Tull – Aqualung (Live)
Antidisestablishmentarianism cool
c000l word.
I’d like to request the word:
Marina
that’s it
thanks
Here you go
http://tinyurl.com/92sq78
Boo!!
Boo, where’s the picanik basket
This is on the menu today
Be right over yummmy
Home made Sushi for me.
I just had two jam sandwiches. I jammed some peanut butter between two slices of bread and a cup of coffee, that was breakfast.
this is what a Jam Sandwich looks like in the UK.
I use to make my own breakfast sandwiches:
Just 2 slices of toast with strawberry jam on each slice, and cooked ham with scrabbled eggs in between.
I’ll take a Cali roll with extra cream cheese, thats about all the Sushi I can handle. I think its a texture thing or maybe a raw fish taste thing, I’m not sure.
Pagedoll I had some the other night at a Japanese restaurant that had chicken in the middle. It was made up just like a sushi roll with dip. I am not to keen on the strong fish taste either.
Now that sounds good…was it like this at the restaurant?
So funny.
“You’ll shoot your eye out!”
Hmmm
Over on Twitter, Authors J.C. Hutchins (jchutchins), Christiana Ellis (ChristianaEllis), twitter users bwassink, and HoboZero, and I were debating why Toboggan is both a thing you ride on, (as well as the verb for sliding down a hill,) and a thing you wear on your head. How did one word end up with such divergent meanings, we would surely like to know. Could you help, oh great teacher?
If you are wearing a toboggan on your head you should take back your toboggan and stop tobogganing… sheeesh!
If you were trying to be a wit, you got half-way there, at least.
Thank you… thank you very much!
hlhello
Wow!
Hi guys