I could go on, but this is already a pretty long post. All in all, a good place to live, but I for one am looking elsewhere.
PneumonoÂ­ultraÂ­microscopicÂ­silicoÂ­volcanoÂ­coniosis succeeded electrophotomicrographically as the longest word in the English language recognized by the National Puzzlers' League at the opening session of the organization's 103rd semi-annual meeting held yesterday at the Hotel New Yorker.
So what if we want a word that is not famous for being long, but a word that describes something real. What's the longest one of those? Science writer Sam Kean, in his book The Disappearing Spoon, worked really hard on this and after much sleuthing, he landed on a word that comes not from dancing English nannies but from virus-hunting scientists.