Lady Gaga Snerd wrote:

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Supposedly the longest word in the Oxford Dictionary. 

 

 

For your viewing pleasure.

 

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (ⁱ/njuːˌmɒnoʊˌʌltrəmaɪkrɵˌskɒpɪkˌsɪlɪkoʊvɒlˌkeɪnɵkɒnaɪˈoʊsɪs/) is an English word that refers to a lung disease that is otherwise known as silicosis. It is the longest word in the English language published in a dictionary, the Oxford English Dictionary.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, it is "an artificial long word said to mean a lung disease caused by inhaling very fine ash and sand dust."^[1

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

 

 

-- Edited by Lady Gaga Snerd on Saturday 3rd of January 2015 01:06:46 AM

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So this would apply to people who were walking around in lower Manhattan on September 12th, 2001, when the EPA (on orders from the White House) told them it was safe to breath there?