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.
The longest word in the English language (leaving literature to one side for a moment) is a staggering 189,819 letters long. Or rather, it is and it isn't. The chemical formula for the protein otherwise known as titin runs to 189,819 letters, but whether this constitutes a 'word' is a moot point.