The longest word in the English language.

[DOS lives on!!]

This crossed my desk today, and at 189,819 letters, that's mind-blowing! It's the scientific name for the Protein Titin.

Try to say it, :D
http://www.sarahmcculloch.com/luminaryuprise/longest-word.php

 

[barythrin]

I would advise against viewing that word on a vintage computer. You'll likely run out of memory before it can finish loading that page.

 

[Ole Juul]

How do you pronounce it?

I'm trying to resist putting it in my spell checker - you never know.

 

[DOS lives on!!]

I wonder who was smart (or dumb) enough to come up with such a WORD. Watch the video at the bottom of the page, sounds like LH Michelle is trying to say it.

 

[Compgeke]

It seems to be a lot of repeating sounds, as if someone was just repeating the same stuff over and over again and saying it's a long word.

 

[DOS lives on!!]

I noticed that. It looks as if similar sounds are repeated, but the different sections are spelled differently.

 

[Neon_WA]

google translate considers it to be Welsh

maybe because the Welsh are renowned for long words

 

[Chuck(G)]

That word would be dwarfed if we'd start naming the DNA molecule the same way. Of course, everyone would have their own version of it. Instead of your name, you could simply fill out the name of your DNA molecule...

 

[Ole Juul]

You can't have people keeling over for lack of oxygen when they are talking, so I'm sure there's a rule that says a word can't be longer than one breath.

 

[DOS lives on!!]

It seems to be a lot of repeating sounds, as if someone was just repeating the same stuff over and over again and saying it's a long word.

I watched that video and there are repeated "words" in it, but they're seperated by different "word sections."