![]() The offer stands: If you think you can pronounce any of the words in this podcast better than I can, make a video and post it! There’s also something about the longest word in German, which Ben liked. It’s either not the longest, or not a word, but what is? All will be answered in this week’s podcast. Anyway, he thought the longest word was ‘pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis’. But it did start me building my empire of language podcasting and world domination, so maybe Dad was onto something there. ![]() A classic case of mistaking correlation and causation, I’m afraid. My dad, for his part, once read somewhere that people with bigger vocabularies got paid more, and so encouraged me to learn lots of words so I’d make more money. ![]() It was my ticket to fame, and all I had to do was spell one word. And the ultra-hardest word was ‘antidisestablishmentarianism’. įor some reason, the other kids at my school thought you were smart if you could spell. You can listen to all the episodes of Talk the Talk by pasting this URL into your podlistener. Listen to this episode 123: The Longest Word Linguist Daniel Midgley explains why size matters on this episode of Talk the Talk. What allows German words to attain such a monstrous size? Are other languages like this? And what’s the longest word in English? ![]() But don’t worry there are a lot of long German words to take its place. It was a 63-letter word to describe a law governing beef testing. ![]()
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