Talk:Longest word in English

Put your text for the new page here. Taumatawha-katangihanga-koauauotamate-aturipuka-kapikimaun-gahoronukup-okaiwhenuak-itanatahu (85 letters) which is a hill in New Zealand.

I see the subject page has been protected, presumably to stop recent vandalism from 24.64.223.205. Why not just ban him instead (see Wikipedia:Vandalism in progress)? That way the defacings stop and real contributors can improve the article. I was going to remove the line breaks from that really really long word -- browsers wrap this anyway so we end up with bad like breaks -- but since it's protected now, somebody gets to do it for me. -- Merphant

Ok, I guess I was wrong, my browser won't wrap it. It should, though. -- Merphant

The title of this page is a bit wordy. I suggest Longest word in English. This shorter term is also more likely to be searched for. --mav

I disagree, in keeping with the theme, I suggest exremely long link removed --Dante Alighieri 00:17 Dec 5, 2002 (UTC)

Yikes! --mav

And, furthermore, I suggest someone put up a phonetic spelling of the above as well as a link to a sound file of someone actually saying the word. ;) --Dante Alighieri 00:21 Dec 5, 2002 (UTC)

moved. --mav

Late now, but wouldn't Longest English word be even better? -Martin

I note the OED (2nd Ed.) lists "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" as an adjective with several examples, not only as a noun as the article suggests. --Imran 23:04 Dec 9, 2002 (UTC).

The longest place name in the US is nto teh one written, i will change it tommrow, unless someoen else does. - fozny

"There is some debate as to whether or not a place name is a legitimate word." There is?? --Lukobe

Removed:

The full name of Los Angeles is El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula (The Town of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels of the Little Portion [River]). It is abbreviated to LA: 3.6% of its full length.

The Poetic name for Bangkok is Krung thep mahanakhon bovorn ratanakosin mahintharayutthaya mahadilok pop noparatratchathani burirom udomratchanivetma hasathan amornpiman avatarnsa thit sakkathattiyavisnukarmprasit.

I removed them because although interesting trivia, neither one is the longest word in English. Maybe this belongs in longest place name article.

The "technical words" section falls far short of the well-written previous sections. That long word is "official" according to whom? Nobody uses that word, or has ever used that word, so why should it be counted?