Nov 06, 2006 20:01
so i was looking up what "quadrillion" was cuz i needed it for my writing about "physics of superheroes" something about how much food the flash would need to eat to be able to run so fast and i found this word/# thing its crazy!
Floccinaucinihilipilification
--> from wiki:
At 29 letters, it is the longest non-technical word in the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, which presents it "as enumerated in a well-known rule from the Eton Latin Grammar". The OED dates its first use in literature at 1741 in William Shenstone's Works in Prose and Verse: "I loved him for nothing so much as his flocci-nauci-nihili-pili-fication of money".