An estimated 5.5 million Americans of all ages have Alzheimer's disease. Of the estimated 5.5 million Americans living with Alzheimer's dementia in 2017, an estimated 5.3 million are age 65 and older and approximately 200,000 individuals are under age 65 and have younger-onset Alzheimer's. One in 10 people age 65 and older (10 percent) has Alzheimer's dementia.
Major dictionaries. 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.
Dmitry Golubovskiy has a lot of time on his hands. Well, at least 213 minutes to spare. That was long enough for him to record a video of him reciting the longest word in the English language. The word -- which is actually the name of a giant protein called Titin -- begins with Methio, ends with leucine, and has a total of 189,819 letters, Geekologie.com reported.