Thats the word. I got it from a reliable source too.
Here's what it explained it as:
"The word for the Tobacco mosaic virus, Dahlemense Strain, qualafies as the longest word in the English because it has actually been used in print (in the American Chemical Society's Chemical Abstracts - and in the first British edition of The Top 10 of Everything (1989), where a typesetting error robbed it of a singly "L", which surprisingly went unnoticed by its readers), wheras certain even longer words for chemical compounds, which have been cited in such sources as the Guinness Book of Records, are bogus in the sense that they have never been used by scientists or appeared in full in print. Long words for chemical compounds may be regarded by purists as cheating since such words as trinitrophenyl-methylnitramine(29 letters) - a type of explosive - can be created by linking together the scientific names of their components. Other words that are also discontinued are those that have been invented with the sole intention of being long words, such as the 100-letter word used by James Joyce in Finnegans Wake."
There you have it Guys, The longest AUTHENTIC Word.
The longest official word ever (1,913 letters) is the term for the formula C1289H2051N343O375S8(numbers in lowercase)
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It's not in the dictionary because it's a term for a formula (chemistry) :P except for common ones like H2O you won't be able to find it in a dictionary. This was the source btw: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A182765
well... if they are chemical formulas then i dont know if they really count because there will endlessly be more and more formulas making more and more long words... whatever though i think ill stay out of it... ermm... maybe its too late for that...
Guess you're right... Question is, was the word put into symbols (or formula), or the formula expressed in a word? A bit chicken and egg question... :D again something where a discussion never ends.. lol
longest word in the dictionary, oxford at least, is the pneumoultra etc etc. it's there, i know, i looked it up at my local library when i was in jr high.
so now it's just how you want to define a word, whether it's possible, like the chemistry one, been used in print, like the tobacco virus, or whether it's in the dictionary.
Maybe it's best to have three catagories in "longest word": ever printed, in a dictionary and scientific/chemistry/made out of components. And everybody is happy :D (saves a lot of time discussing this) ;)
I know... I just happened to have a book that had the longest word in it... I dont try to figure that stuff out for fun... and if ya really dont want me to post.. tough.. I just wont post any more educated threads then.
