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August 3, 2009

THE LONGEST WORDS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

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25 Comments »

  1. OH-MY-GOD!
    That’s just insane, i don’t even think that croatian or swedish contains that long of a word! Hahah, but eventhough I enjoyed it ; alot! ??

    Comment by bloocci — August 5, 2009 @ 1:07 pm

  2. she’s my favorite on rocketboom, no offense molly :D

    Comment by VideoGamer945 — August 7, 2009 @ 7:01 am

  3. Why the hell would you make a wordthat is 180,000 letters long that means some kinda protein unless your an idiot trying to set some stupid record with a bunch of bullshit letters put together. I got a huge word for ya, 57 letters. YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

    Comment by TdubGlenn — August 10, 2009 @ 9:52 am

  4. wtf I couldn’t understand the first like two sentences.
    I mean I could understand it but the words were…

    Comment by googleplex617 — August 12, 2009 @ 10:19 pm

  5. Um…… Whats that in engalish?

    Comment by mrblobbyrulez — August 15, 2009 @ 7:48 am

  6. your brain is wrong. Otherwise you’d have STFU already.

    Comment by PTSnake — August 17, 2009 @ 10:04 pm

  7. your grammar was still wrong

    Comment by architrex12249 — August 20, 2009 @ 7:39 pm

  8. japanese? Not as hard as you may think. Hiragana over-simplifies the language.

    Comment by PTSnake — August 21, 2009 @ 9:01 am

  9. YOu know there should have been a disclaimer for all people with hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia not to watch because if they do it could be very chaotic.

    Comment by thenewenglandredneck — August 23, 2009 @ 12:42 am

  10. I used to have a dictionary of obscure english words. My favourite was…

    pornofornocacaphagomaniacal

    The word was coined by a reviewer to describe Dante’s Inferno and the definition given in the dictionary was even better than the word itself…

    Insanely, exotically erotic, in a furnace fornicating shiteatingly

    I must get another copy of that book, her words are boring :)

    Comment by Caradoc93 — August 25, 2009 @ 8:25 pm

  11. ??????????????????????????????????

    Comment by architrex12249 — August 29, 2009 @ 2:06 am

  12. I’d rather watch hotforwords. :D

    Comment by googoogjoob999 — August 31, 2009 @ 7:32 pm

  13. it’s not wrong either, dumbass. Now, let’s see you speak a bit of portuguese and/or german.
    Can’t? Well, shou’ve just shut the fuck up then.

    Comment by PTSnake — September 2, 2009 @ 4:52 pm

  14. damn shes good

    Comment by RebornReaper — September 4, 2009 @ 10:23 am

  15. Ok, thanks for clarification yougosquishnow.

    Comment by Beefforyou — September 4, 2009 @ 5:12 pm

  16. Poor news reporter must have had some months of preparations for this vid xD

    Comment by Maruschek — September 7, 2009 @ 12:45 pm

  17. i used extemporaneous in a sentence and my teacher had to ask me what it meant. i told him to look it up. fuckin asshole

    Comment by 0oRouseticalo0 — September 10, 2009 @ 8:23 pm

  18. I think you meant: “…English is fucking easy. The fact that most populations know it (i’m self taught for fuck’s sake) should serve as proof.”

    nice try dipshit
    learn your grammar…

    Comment by architrex12249 — September 13, 2009 @ 7:22 pm

  19. WOW LONG WORDS my head hurts!!!!

    Comment by 411lashea — September 17, 2009 @ 7:22 am

  20. your hott, i wanna fuckk you lol

    Comment by 7122222 — September 17, 2009 @ 3:02 pm

  21. HIGH FIVE.

    I’m British also… but I’mma guy.

    D:

    Comment by GiefCherryCoke — September 18, 2009 @ 5:50 am

  22. Yes.
    DAT British accent.

    Comment by HentaiNoKamiSama92 — September 20, 2009 @ 4:00 am

  23. I’d tap that, am I right?

    Comment by GiefCherryCoke — September 23, 2009 @ 1:03 am

  24. of all the foreign people i know (which is a lot) they all cannot say the word idea they all say idear

    Comment by kaninchenmeister — September 24, 2009 @ 8:11 pm

  25. You are a beast at talking lol

    Comment by lacomidaboy — September 24, 2009 @ 8:40 pm

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