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Thread #80343 Message #1465795
Posted By: GUEST,Skipy
19-Apr-05 - 05:55 PM
Thread Name: BS: Today's word is:-
Subject: RE: BS: Today's word is:-
PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS (45 letters; a lung disease caused by breathing in certain particles) is the longest word in any English-language dictionary. (It is also spelled -koniosis.)