The way we talk about paper in the United States is amazingly convoluted. The short answer is that 500 sheets of bond paper with a size of 17 by 22 have a weight of 20 pounds.The manufacturer would cut a sheet that big into four letter-size sheets, so a 500-sheet ream of 20-pound bond paper weighs 5 pounds.If it was something other than bond paper, then the size of the standard sheet used to determine the weight might be different.he way we talk about paper in the United States is amazingly convoluted. The short answer is that 500 sheets of bond paper with a size of 17 by 22 have a weight of 20 pounds.
The longest word in any of the major English language dictionaries is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, a word that refers to a lung disease contracted from the inhalation of very fine silica particles, specifically from a volcano; medically, it is the same as silicosis.miles, according to an old riddle, may be considered the longest word in English, as there is a mile between the first and last letter. A retort asserts that beleaguered is longer still, since it contains a league.
So what exactly is the longest word in the world? First you have 'floccinaucinihilipilification' at 29 characters, meaning 'the act of estimating as worthless'. Then there's 'antidisestablishmentarianism' at 28 letters, meaning 'opposition to the disestablishment of the Church of England'.