My new favourite word

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I think Johnney meant "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconeosis." The word appeared in a newspaper article in spring 1988 (the article was about how it was the longest word ever, natch), and it's been rattling around my brain ever since.

jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 6 June 2004 05:36 (nineteen years ago) link

three years pass...

slux

roxymuzak, Thursday, 18 October 2007 03:41 (sixteen years ago) link

nine months pass...

venery

Michael White, Thursday, 7 August 2008 16:45 (fifteen years ago) link

two years pass...

Enschede

nakhtar donetsk (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 02:33 (thirteen years ago) link

pah! it's not as good as "syncretic" which i looked up the other day. it sounds like a horrible flaky skin disease but IN FACT means the synthesis of two formerly separate belief systems.

― katie, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (9 years ago)

philipe du clare used this word on the guardian weekly football podcast the other day fwiw

best poster with ten-letter single-word username (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 02:46 (thirteen years ago) link

eight years pass...

Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia

fear of the number 66

Trϵϵship, Tuesday, 11 June 2019 21:21 (four years ago) link

*666

Trϵϵship, Tuesday, 11 June 2019 21:21 (four years ago) link

how can we trust you didn’t also muck up the spelling

estela, Tuesday, 11 June 2019 22:55 (four years ago) link

I checked on this thread to see what you wrote, estela, and sure enough, i got a healthy chuckle out of it.

blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Wednesday, 12 June 2019 01:05 (four years ago) link


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