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 Sara5
 
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							| Wow!!!!! 
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							| Dear members, I couldn �t believe my eyes when I saw this: The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis it is a kind of lung disease How is it pronounced?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |  9 Nov 2010      
					
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 blunderbuster
 
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							| I try not to use big words I don �t understand ;o) |  9 Nov 2010     
					
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 ASA3000
 
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							| I think it would be:   "In sounds and syllables"   /new - mono - ultra - micro - skopic - siliko - volkano - Konju:sis/     Good luck :) |  9 Nov 2010     
					
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 edrodmedina
 
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							| Ahhhmmmm, I don �t think I �ll ever have an ocassion to use it. I don �t want to expend too much energy trying to pronounce it, but thanks to all who took time to get the pronounciation. Ed |  9 Nov 2010     
					
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 Lindax
 
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Just 45 letters? Try this one �for size TAUMATAWHAKATANGIHANGAKOAUAUOTAMATEATURIPUKAKAPIKIMAUNGAHORONUKUPOKAIWHENUAKITANATAHUA hill in New Zealand. (85 letters)
  GORSA�FAWDDACH�AIDRAIGODAN�HEDDO�GLEDDOLON�PENRHYN�AREUR�DRAETH�CEREDIGION�A town in Wales.
 Rindfleischetikettierungs�berwachungsaufgaben�bertragungsgesetz �- 63 letters
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 "Hottentottenstottertrottelmutterattent�terlattengitterwetterkotterbeutelratte"
 
 �Here �s the story, from Mark Twain`s Autobiography
 This is the English version of the anecdote:
 A Dresden paper, the Weidmann, which thinks that there are kangaroos (Beutelratte) in South Africa, says the hottentots (Hottentotten) put them in cages (Kotter) provided with covers (Lattengitter) to protect them from the rain.
 The cages are therefore called Lattengitterwetterkotter, and the imprisoned kangaroo Lattengitterwetterkotterbeutelratte.
 One day, and assassin (Attent�ter) was arrested who had killed a hottentot woman (Hottentottenmutter), the mother of two stupid and stuttering children (Stottertrottel). This woman, in the German language, is entitled Hottentottenstottertrottelmutter, and her assassin takes the name Hottentottenstottertrottelmutterattent�ter. The murderer was confined to a cage - Beutelrattenlattengitterwetterkotter - whence a few days later he escaped, but fortunately was recaptured by a hottentot, who presented himself at the mayor �s office with beaming face: "I have captured the Beutelratte", he said. "Which one?", asked the mayor, "we have several".
 "The Attent�terlattengitterwetterkotterbeutelratte".
 "Which Attent�ter are you talking about?"
 "About the Hottentottenstottertrottelmutterattent�ter".
 "Then why don �t you say at once the Hottentottenstottertrottelmutterattent�terlattengitterwetterkotterbeutelratte"?
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 Olindalima ( F )
 
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							| Hi Lindax 
 that �s
 
 
 SUPERCALIFRAGILIEXPERALIDOUS !
  
 Sorry for some misspelling ( ? )
 
 Linda
 
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 Olindalima ( F )
 
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							| Hi Moravc 
 Bunches of thanks for the links - I really think it �s about time some Mary Poppins pops up with some joy and mistery and some magic world , to turn this land of us somehow a little merrier
 
 Have a SUPERCALIFRAGILITICEXPIALIDOCIOUS week.
 
 I think someone should post this as the WOD, I �d love to see yours answers..
 
 Hugs, Moravc, nice to see you
 
 Linda
 
 
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