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SeraxOfTolos t1_j2cuyhc wrote

Reply to comment by Uranus_Hz in TIL The longest word in the English language, according to the Guinness Book of World Records, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, which is a lung disease caused by inhaling very fine silica particles. by mic3ttaa

It actually is, the definition of phenom-xxxxxx is a fake word made up to become the longest word in the dictionary, it's since been taken over to mean a type of lung cancer cause by volcanic ash

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SithRose t1_j2cy08l wrote

I mean, it's pretty literally the meaning of the German style Latin root compound word anyhow...

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