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.
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.