PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS - 45 Letters - Longest word in the English Dictionary...A Lung disease as pointed out by the prefix pneumo
DONAUDAMPFSCHIFFAHRTSELEKTRIZITAETENHAUPTBETRIEBSWERKBAUUNTERBEAMTENGESELLSCHAFT - 80 Letters - Longest word in German...and it is the club for subordinate officials of the head office management of the Danube steamboat electrical services
NORDOSTERSJOKUSTARTILLERIFLYGSPANINGSSIMULATORANLAGG-
NINGSMATERIELUNDERHALLSUPPFOLJNINGSSYSTEMDISKUSSIONS-
INLAGGSFORBEREDELSEARBETEN - 130 Letters - Longest word in Swedish....silly Swedes
....preparatory work on the contribution to the discussion on the maintaining system of support of the material of the aviation survey simulator device within the north-east part of the coast artillery of the Baltic
SMILES is supposed to be the longest word in the dictionary because "there's a mile between the two S's.
LLANFAIRPWLLGWYNGYLLGOGERYCHWYRNDROBWLLLLANTYSILIOGOGOGOCH - Longest Placename in the world. It is a town in North Wales meaning "St. Mary's Church in the hollow of the white hazel near to the rapid whirlpool of Llantysilio of the red cave" Jeez......
TAUMATAWHAKATANGIHANGAKOAUAUOTAMATEATURIPUKAKAPIKI- MAUNGAHORONUKUPOKAIWHENUAKITANATAHU. Williams says, "If we want to go there now we call it Taumata." New Zealand broadcaster Henare Te Ua says the word celebrates the prowess of a great Maori chief who possessed enormous personal power. Chief Tamatea was so mighty and powerful that, metaphorically, he could even eat mountains. There was a gentle side to his personality too. He could play his nose flute beautifully and quite charmingly to his loved ones. The word, Henare said, means "The summit of the hill, where Tamatea, who is known as the land eater, slid down, climbed up and swallowed mountains, played on his nose flute to his loved one." The hill, about 1000 feet in height, is in Southern Hawke's Bay, a district on the eastern side of the north island.
The longest place-name in the world is the full name for Bangkok, the capital city of Thailand: KRUNGTHEP MAHANAKHON BOVORN RATANAKOSIN MAHINTHARAYUTTHAYA MAHADILOKPOP NOPARATRATCHATHANI BURIROM UDOMRATCHANIVETMAHASATHAN AMORNPIMAN AVATARNS ATHIT SAKKATHATTIYAVISNUKARMPRASIT, meaning "The land of angels, the great city (of) immortality, various of devine gems, the great angelic land unconquerable, land of nine noble gems, the royal city, the pleasant capital, place of the grand royal palace, forever land of angels and reincarnated spirits, predestined and created by the highest Deva(s)."
The shortest placenames in the U. S. may be L (a lake in Nebraska) and T (a gulch in Colorado), each named for its shape, and D (a river in Oregon flowing from Devil's Lake to the Ocean near Lincoln City). According to Stuart Kidd, Y is a city in Arkansas and E is a river in Perthshire, Scotland. According to Howard Lewis, the D River is the shortest river in the world. There are villages called Å in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark, a Y in France, and U in the Pacific Caroline Islands. The only one-letter placename in the index of the Rand McNally International Atlas is A, a peak in Hong Kong
EIGHT is the first whole number, if all whole numbers are arranged in alphabetical order; ZERO would be the last number
By standard dictionary alphabetizing procedure (i.e., ignoring spaces, punctuation, etc.), the first ten number names alphabetically are:
eight
eight billion
eight billion eight
eight billion eighteen
eight billion eighteen million
eight billion eighteen million eight
eight billion eighteen million eighteen
eight billion eighteen million eighteen thousand
eight billion eighteen million eighteen thousand eight
eight billion eighteen million eighteen thousand eighteen.
The last whole number excluding zero is two vigintillion two undecillion two trillion two thousand two hundred two.
That's enough spamming for me
Sun Apr 25, 2004 10:51 am 
at least from what i hear from this england educated teacher.