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07-16-2001, 04:33 AM
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Village Idiot
Join Date: Jul 2001
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Longest Words???
What is the longest word you know......
Mine is
paradichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane
thats 35 letters....
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07-16-2001, 06:42 AM
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FLAC
Join Date: Aug 1999
Location: Upper Marlboro, MD 20772
Posts: 1,311
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and what they hell does that mean.
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07-16-2001, 09:10 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: The Netherlands
Posts: 626
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osseocarnisanguineoviscericartilagninonervomedulla ry (52 letters)
for those who's interested in this stuff, check out this page
It's all about very long words
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07-16-2001, 10:32 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2000
Location: London, Ontario, Canada
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For what it's worth, the longest word in the english language is just over 1000 letters long....No, I'm not going to type it. 
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07-16-2001, 03:43 PM
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Village Idiot
Join Date: Jul 2001
Posts: 4
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paradichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane is DDT...
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07-16-2001, 08:20 PM
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Raw Wave
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: Nashville
Posts: 2,649
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do names count? because I go to college and a lot of my teachers have names that nobody can pronounce because they're like 50 letters long.......god I hate TA's (if you've ever taken a college lab you'll side with me on that)
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07-16-2001, 08:48 PM
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Village Idiot
Join Date: Jul 2001
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Nah, names don't count.......
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