世界上最長既英文字有幾多個英文字母同點解?(10分呀!!!)

definition of what constitutes an English word. English allows new words to be formed by construction; long words are coined; place names may be considered words; technical terms may be arbitrarily long. Length can be in terms of orthography and number of written letters or phonology and the number of phonemes.



Word
Length
Pros
Cons

Methionylthreonylthreonyl...isoleucine
189,819 letters
Longest full chemical name of a protein[1]
Technical; not in a major dictionary

Lopado...pterygon
183 letters
Longest word coined by a major author[2]
Coined; not in a major dictionary

Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu
85 letters
Longest officially recognized place name[3]
Place name; not in a major dictionary

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
45 letters
Longest word in a major dictionary[4]
Technical; coined to be the longest word

Pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism
30 letters
Longest non-coined word in a major dictionary
Technical

Floccinaucinihilipilification
29 letters
Longest nontechnical word
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2007-10-02 02:47:44 補充：
the first line should be as below instead:The longest word in English depends upon the definition of what constitutes an English word.

係咪真係有呢D英文字ga??

28.根據牛頓字典世界上最長的英文字是
'pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis'


Part of Speech: n
Definition: supposedly the longest word in a dictionary, an artificial word said to mean a lung disease caused by the inhalation of silica dust

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