On Constructing Long Words

Authors

Dmitri A. Borgmann

Abstract

Of perennial interest to Word Ways readers are very long English words - words of 27 or more letters, written solidly, without hyphens, apostrophes, or other letter separations. Unfortunately, categories: obscure medical terms: even obscurer medical terms: weird place names of Amerind, Welsh, Maori, Thai, or other equally exotic provenance, resembling nothing even remotely English: fictitious words listed and defined by dictionaries. Examples of fictitious words include:

HONORICICABILITUDINATATIBUS (Web 1 and 2)

FLOCCIPAUCINIHILIPILIFICATION (Oxford English Dictionary)

SUPERCALIFRAGILISTICEXPIALIDOCIOUS (Random House)

PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOCANOKONISOSIS (Web 2)

PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS (Web 3)

Recommended Citation

Borgmann, Dmitri A. (1987) "On Constructing Long Words," Word Ways: Vol. 20 : Iss. 1 , Article 10.
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