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Sunday, 13 April 2014

Word of the Day(II)

The word of the day is.......

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis!!!!!!!

It is actually the longest word in a major dictionary. Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is, according to Oxford Dictionaries, “an artificial long word said to mean a lung disease caused by inhaling very fine ash and sand dust.” According to Dictionary.com's 21st Century Lexicon, it is “supposedly the longest word in a dictionary.

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