SOME Kind Of Long Words In English Language

#53
22th April

Today I'm so boring to post out something in my blog. So, I went for surfing the Internet to find some long words in English language. Is quite difficult to spell out the words with the vowels accurately, but is interesting to learn up the words because... is just for FUN!!! XD

These are the 6 words that I found from the Internet:

1) HONORIFICABILITUDINITATIBUS (27 LETTERS)

Honorificabilitudinitatibus is the dative and ablative plural of the medieval Latin word "honorificabilitudinitas", which can be translated as "the state of being to achieve honours". It is mentioned by the character Costard in Act V, Scene I of William S Shakespeare's "Love Labour's Lost". As it appears only once in Shakespeare"s works, it is a hapax legomenon in the Shakespeare canon. It is also the longest word in the English language featuring alternating consonants and vowels.

2) ANTIDISESTABLISHMENTARIANISM ( 28 LETTERS)

Antidisestablishmentarianism is a political position that originated in 19th-century Britain in opposition of proposals for disestablishment of the Church of England, that is, to remove the Anglican Church's status as the state church of England, Ireland and Wales.

The establishment was maintained in England, but in Ireland of the Church of Ireland (Anglican) was disestablished in 1871. In Wales, four Church of England dioceses were disestablished in 1920, subsequently becoming the Church in Wales.

The question of disestablishment of the Church of England is still current, often tied with the position of the English monarch as "Supreme Governor" of the Church. Those who wish to continue of establishment of the Church of English are referred to as "antidisestablishmentarians".

3) FLOCCINAUCINIHILIPILIFICATION (29 LETTERS)

Referring the etymology, the jocular coinage , apparently by students at Eton, combining a number of roughly synonymous Latin stems. Latin "floccus", a wisp or a piece of wool + "nauci", from "naucum", a trifle + "nihili", from the Latin pronoun, "nihil" ("nothing") + "pili", from "pilus", a hair, soemthing insignificant (all therefore having the sense of "pettiness" or "nothing") + "-fication. "Flocci non facio" was a Latin expressions of indifference, literally "I do not make a straw of..."

Or simply said, floccinaucinihilipilification is came from another words wholly "Flocculus Noccin Nihil Pili", with the another meaning of "the act or habit if describing or regarding something as unimportant".

4) SUPERCALIFRAGILISTICEXPIALIDOCIOUS (34 LETTERS)

Supercalifragilisticeexpialidocious is an English word, with 34 letters, that was in the song with the same title in the 1964 Disney musical film "Mary Poppins". The song was written by the Sherman Brothers, and sung by Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke. It also appears in the stag show version of "Mary Poppins".

Since "Mary Poppins" was a period piece set in 1910, period sounding songs were wanted. "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" sounds like contemporary music hall songs "Boiled Beef and Carrots" and "Any Old Iron".

5) PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS (45 LETTERS)

According the Oxford English Dictionary, Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is a factitious word alleged to means "a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust, causing the inflammation in the lungs. A condition meeting the word's definition is normally called "silicosis".

Moreover, this word was invented in 1935 by Everett M. Smith, president of the National Puzzlers' League, as its annual meeting. The word figured in the headline for an article published by the "New York Herald Tribune" on February 23, 1935, with the title "Puzzlers Open 103d Session Hereby Recognizing 45-Letter Word..."

6) TITIN

Actually, Titin also known as Connectin, is a protein that in humans is encoded by the "TTN" gene. Titin is a giant protein that functions as a molecular spring which is responsible for the passive elasticity of muscle. It is composed 244 individually folded protein domains connected by unstructured peptide sequences. These domains unfold when the protein is stretched and refold when the tension is removed.

You may ask, is this one of the long words?? My answer is, YES!!! Titin had its own chemical term, but too long as it contains... 189819 LETTERS!!! How dare I can type it all?? That's must use up about 1 hour or 2 hours. But, I can know that medical term starts from "Methionyl..." and ends with "...isolucine".

That's all for today. If you are interested in these words, I encourage you to learn up some of it. That's would be enough. Do you agree??

Bye!!!