Curtis Honeycutt | Grammar Guy: A tendentious excoriation of sesquipedalianism
At some point, you learned the word âantidisestablishmentarianism.â You may not know what it means, but at least you know it. Never mind that it has to do with people who wanted to maintain the Anglican Churchâs status as the official Church of England in the 1800s â it has 12 syllables! Thatâs a word worth knowing! The longest word in the English language weighs in at 45 letters and 19 syllables. Appearing in the Oxford English Dictionary, the word is âpneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis,â and means âa lung disease caused by breathing in tiny...
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