what is the longest word in the english language?
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is longest word in English to appear in a major dictionary. Note that there are technical words with 100,000+ letters, that doesn't appear in the dictionary.
It depends on how you define a word. Wikipedia has a good article about it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_word_in_English
Personally I think the winner must be Floccinaucinihilipilification, which means, um... er...
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I ever encountered this question in a book of quick turn of brain . I got the answer is "smile". Because the distance between the first letter and its the last letter is one "mile". I think it is reasonable. How do you think about it?
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