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Like an actually stupid question...

What is the longest english word? (And how long is it)

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Re: Like an actually stupid question...

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Like this but way longer. Shortened it to post.
This word has 189,819 characters in its name and takes more than an hour to pronounce.

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Re: Like an actually stupid question...

Credit for what I just said to Wikipedia.

Last edited by InternetExplorer8 (2024-01-08 11:20:11)

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Re: Like an actually stupid question...

OK cool

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