{"id":11607,"date":"2013-06-04T21:59:34","date_gmt":"2013-06-04T20:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=11607"},"modified":"2013-06-04T22:37:58","modified_gmt":"2013-06-04T21:37:58","slug":"whats-the-longest-word-in-the-english-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=11607","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s the longest word in the English language?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is:<\/p>\n<p><strong>neumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis<\/strong>\u00a0= A lung disease caused by inhalation of silica dust.<\/p>\n<p>Other long words around the world include:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Floccinaucinihilipilification =\u00a0<\/strong>Act or habit of estimating as worthless. Longest word in Hansard, as used by by Jacob Rees-Mogg<\/p>\n<p><strong>Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaunga-<br \/>\nhoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu<\/strong>\u00a0Longest-named place in the world, given to a New Zealand hill by the Maoris<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rindfleischetikettierungs\u00fcberwachungsaufgaben\u00fcbertragungsgesetz = <\/strong>the law concerning the delegation of duties for the supervision of cattle marking and the labelling of beef. Until\u00a0recently. the longest world in the German\u00a0language<\/p>\n<p>And finally:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia = <\/strong>the fear of long words<\/p>\n<p>All this information comes from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2013\/jun\/03\/indfleischetikettierungsberwachungsaufgabenbertragungsgesetz-word-germany\">this article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is: neumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis\u00a0= A lung disease caused by inhalation of silica dust. Other long words around the world include: Floccinaucinihilipilification =\u00a0Act or habit of estimating as worthless. Longest word in Hansard, as used by by Jacob Rees-Mogg Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaunga- horonukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu\u00a0Longest-named place in the world, given to a New Zealand hill by the Maoris Rindfleischetikettierungs\u00fcberwachungsaufgaben\u00fcbertragungsgesetz = the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11607"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11609,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11607\/revisions\/11609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}