FUN WITH WORDS 2

Shakespeare Had A Long Word


Costard says in Act V of Love's Labour Lost: "I marvel thy master hath not eaten thee for a word; for thou are not so long by the head as honorificabilitudinitatibus," which is from a medieval nonsense word for "honorableness."

FUN WITH WORDS

A forty-five letter word connoting a lung disease--

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis,

is the longest word in Webster's Third New International Dictionary. The longest word in the Oxford English Dictionary means the act of estimating as worthless--

floccipaucinihilipilification,

which has twenty-nine letters.