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Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, “a factitious word alleged to mean ‘a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust, causing inflammation in the lungs’.”
It was coined to serve as the longest English word and is the longest word ever to appear in an English language dictionary.


December 21st, 2008  

One Response to “pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis”

  1. E.
    December 26th, 2008 at 03:09

    D’oh, this word broke my sidebar. Oh well, screw it.


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