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Some information about 'pneumoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis':
http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
The word meaning 'fear of long words' is:
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia
Both of these are words that have been specifically made up: the first was made by a puzzle fanatic simply in order to be the longest word in a dictionary (something which it did achieve), and the second was made to be long just for comedy value.
Shakespeare did this too: 'honorificabilitudinitatibus' from Love's Labours Lost is the longest word in any of his plays. It means 'loaded with honours' and was simply included for a laugh.
James Joyce's book Finnegans Wake is written in a dreamlike version of English - the words stretch and squeeze and gobble each other up. It contains ten different hundred-letter words that represent thunder. Here's the first of them:
bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk
What a cool word!
Peace
Some information about 'pneumoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis':
http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
The word meaning 'fear of long words' is:
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia
Both of these are words that have been specifically made up: the first was made by a puzzle fanatic simply in order to be the longest word in a dictionary (something which it did achieve), and the second was made to be long just for comedy value.
Shakespeare did this too: 'honorificabilitudinitatibus' from Love's Labours Lost is the longest word in any of his plays. It means 'loaded with honours' and was simply included for a laugh.
James Joyce's book Finnegans Wake is written in a dreamlike version of English - the words stretch and squeeze and gobble each other up. It contains ten different hundred-letter words that represent thunder. Here's the first of them:
bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk
What a cool word!
Peace
