THE LONGEST THINKABLE WORD IN YOUR LANGUAGE

So they are compound words then... a word formed from many other words.

Yes and no ,These 2 were ,though they formed a totally new word,most of the words i typed are 1 word

I didnt get the compound-word thing right away....
Its still unique though.....you barely see it in english...

And in dutch you cant just put all the words after another theres some very complicated grammer involved...

Bye the way did you notice the dutch alphabets unique letter in those words ????



The "IJ" !

The longest one I know in Finnish is
järjestelmällistämättömyydelläänsäänkäänköhän.

....or kirjastonhoitotaidottomattomuudellaansaankaankohan

well there are loads of words like these..I wouldn't even call them a words.

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*pause for breath*

Sander:

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Thats good for you ( I dont smoke to)

But Its "only"the chemical name/word for tobbaco,
Bye the way the names of a lot of organic substances ar this long...
because its not a pure element...like iron or sulfur...for example

WoW! I don't think very many people asked to borrow a cigarette in ancient Rome! :)

Tobbacco comes from the americas ,It would be pretty difficult to explain what you wanted in ancient rome.....

In English, "antidisestablishmentarianism" is about as good as you're going to get, outside of scientific words, which I wouldn't really count.

LookatmeIcanmakeupridiculouslylongbullsihtwordstoo.

That's one. I can think of a few more if you'd like.

david, you are one helluva gem poster. I wish I could borrow your sense of humour.

Sanja, how about "prijestolonasljednikovica" (the wife of the heir to the throne)? It appears to be the longest SC word still in use. This is shorter in Ekavian Serbian (prestolonaslednikovica). There's also "potpukovnikovica".

I also came across, "antisamoupravnosocijalistički", but that's not really in vogue anymore, is it?

Serbocroatobosnioherzegoviniomontenegrin isn't really big on long words. I won't even try to top Tiffany's entry for the longest (real) English word.

<<"prijestolonasljednikovica" - the wife of the heir to the throne>>

Why the wife? It would be the same word if the heir was a woman, no?
At least in Bulgarian - prestolonaslednitsa - is exactly that.

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... but of course I cheat.

http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/aboutwords/longestword?view=uk
http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/wordtriv.htm
http://www.m-w.com/help/faq/long_words.htm