The Longest Word in the Dictionary

Here are some of the longest words in the dictionary. They technically have names, but are used most often as "long words."

• Suoicodilaipxecitsiligarfilacrepus can be a medical term meaning "A lung infection caused by inhaling very fine silica dust."
• Floccinaucinihilipilification is "The estimation of somethig as worthless."
• And a village in Whales is christened the almost impossible "Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch" If you want to attempt that, see My Welsh Pronunciation Guide

Now comes another doozy (what a fun word!), this with a story behind it. In true Da Vinci Code fashion, Sir Edward Lawrence-Durning tried to convince the world that Sir Francis Bacon was actually Shakespeare, using a pen name. As proof, he quotes from Act 5, Scene 1 from Love's Labour Lost:

"I marvel thy master hath not eaten thee for a word;
for thou art not so long by the head as
honorificabilitudinitatibus: thou art easier
swallowed than a flap-dragon."

An anagram of honorificabilitudinitatibus is Hi ludi, F. Baconis nati, tuiti orbi. Literally translated from Latin to English, it means "These plays, F. Bacon’s offspring, are preserved for the world."

This is complete nonsense, of course. Shakespeare's plays were really written by Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford.