There are a variety of reasons why your eyes may be irritated, and weâre arming you with the info you need to spot and treat the differences. Eye Allergies. Eye allergies (also referred to as allergic conjunctivitis) are the most common cause (link is external) of eye redness, itching, and excessive tearing.
The longest palindromic word in the Oxford English Dictionary is tattarrattat, coined by James Joyce in Ulysses for a knock on the door. The Guinness Book of Records gives detartrated, the past tense of detartrate, a somewhat contrived chemical term meaning to remove tartrates.
(45) PNEUMONOÂ­ULTRAÂ­MICROÂ­SCOPICÂ­SILICOÂ­VOLCANOÂ­CONIOSIS (also spelled PNEUMONOÂ­ULTRAÂ­MICROÂ­SCOPICÂ­SILICOÂ­VOLCANOÂ­KONIOSIS) = a lung disease caused by breathing in particles of siliceous volcanic dust. This is the longest word in any English dictionary. However, it was coined by Everett Smith, the President of The National Puzzlers' League, in 1935 purely for the purpose of inventing a new longest word. The Oxford English Dictionary described the word as factitious.