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?
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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
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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.