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Read the Wiktionary entry "floccinaucinihilipilification". You can also: Search for Floccinaucinihilipilification in Wikipedia. From a cross-project redirect: This is a soft redirect that is used as a connection to other Wikimedia projects. A Wikidata element is linked to this page: floccinaucinihilipilification (Q5921605).
The word teetertotter (used in North American English) is longer at 12 letters, although it is usually spelled with a hyphen. The longest using only the middle row is shakalshas (10 letters). Nine-letter words include flagfalls; eight-letter words include galahads and alfalfas. Since the bottom row contains no vowels, no standard words can be ...
Antidisestablishmentarianism is a political position that originated in 19th century Britain. The position opposed proposals at that time to remove the Anglican Church 's status as the established church of England, Ireland, and Wales, but not in Scotland, which had and still has its own separate national church. [3]
The word as we first heard it was super-cadja-flawjalistic-espealedojus. [9] Dictionary.com meanwhile says it is "used as a nonsense word by children to express approval or to represent the longest word in English." [10] The word contains 34 letters and 14 syllables.
In the foreword to his 1529 translation of Lucan, French humanist and engraver Geoffroy Tory used the word as an example of bad writing, citing the Hermes couplet. [32] [33] It also occurs in the works of Rabelais [12] and in The Complaynt of Scotland (1549). [34] The word in its various forms was frequently used as test of the pen by scribes.
Etymology. Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is the longest word in the English language. The word can be analysed as follows: Pneumono: from ancient Greek (πνεύμων, pneúmōn) which means lungs. ultra: from Latin, meaning beyond. micro and scopic: from ancient Greek, meaning small looking, referring to the ...
Possible Consequences of Floccinaucinihilipilification. And all for the want of a horseshoe nail! For want of a rivet, ... the airplane was lost. For want of a tile (or tiles), ... the space shuttle was lost. For want of a species, ... the ecosystem was lost. (See biodiversity.)
Apocolocyntosis, from a 9th-century manuscript of the Abbey library of Saint Gall.. The Apocolocyntosis (divi) Claudii, literally The Pumpkinification of (the Divine) Claudius, is a satire on the Roman emperor Claudius, which, according to Cassius Dio, was written by Seneca the Younger.