Colista Moore (2011). Student's Dictionary. p. 524. ISBN 978-1-934669-21-1. Jump up ^ see separate article Lopado...pterygon Jump up ^ Donald McFarlan; Norris Dewar McWhirter; David A. Boeh (1989). Guinness book of world records: 1990. Sterling. p. 129. ISBN 978-0-8069-5790-6. ^ Jump up to: a b Coined around 1935 to be the longest word; press reports on puzzle league members legitimized it somewhat. First appeared in the MWNID supplement, 1939. Today OED and several others list it, but citations are almost always as "longest word". More detail at pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. Jump up ^ "What is the longest English word?". AskOxford. Archived from the original on 2012-04-12. Retrieved 2010-08-22. Jump up ^ Oxford Dictionary Online Jump up ^ http://www.innocentenglish.com/cool-interesting-and-strange-facts/cool-strange-and-interesting-facts-page-3-3.html%7CSee fact #99 Jump up ^ Definition for pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis - Oxford Dictionaries Online (World English) Jump up ^ "The Longest Word in the Dictionary" (Video). Ask the Editor. Merriam-Webster. Retrieved 14 November 2013. Jump up ^ "Floccinaucinihilipilification" by Michael Quinion World Wide Words; Jump up ^ The Guinness Book of Records, in its 1992 and previous editions, declared the longest real word in the English language to be floccinaucinihilipilification. More recent editions of the book have acknowledged pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. What is the longest English word? - Oxford Dictionaries Online Jump up ^ In recent times its usage has been recorded in the proceedings of the United States Senate by Senator Robert Byrd Discussion between Sen. Moynihan and Sen. Byrd "Mr. President, may I say to the distinguished Senator from New York, I used that word on the Senate floor myself 2 or 3 years ago. I cannot remember just when or what the occasion was, but I used it on that occasion to indicate that whatever it was I was discussing it was something like a mere trifle or nothing really being of moment." Congressional Record June 17, 1991, p. S7887, and at the White House by Bill Clinton's press secretary Mike McCurry, albeit sarcastically. December 6, 1995, White House Press Briefing in discussing Congressional Budget Office estimates and assumptions: "But if you – as a practical matter of estimating the economy, the difference is not great. There's a little bit of floccinaucinihilipilification going on here." Jump up ^ Eckler, R. Making the Alphabet Dance, p 252, 1996. Jump up ^ "Longest Common Words – Modern". Maltron.com. Retrieved 2010-08-22.[dead link] Jump up ^ Paux et al. (2008) Science, Vol. 322 (5898) 101-104. A Physical Map of the 1-Gigabase Bread Wheat Chromosome 3B [1] Jump up ^ Chemical Abstracts Formula Index, Jan.-June 1964, Page 967F; Chemical Abstracts 7th Coll. Formulas, C23H32-Z, 56-65, 1962-1966, Page 6717F Jump up ^ World's longest name of an animal. Parastratiosphecomyia stratiosphecomyioides Stratiomyid Fly Soldier Fly Jump up ^ cited in some editions of the Guinness Book of Records as the longest word in English, see Askoxford.com on the longest English word Archived 12 April 2012 at WebCite Jump up ^ [2][dead link] Jump up ^ "GeoNames Government of Canada site". Jump up ^ Belluck, Pam (2004-11-20). "What's the Name of That Lake? It's Hard to Say". The New York Times. Jump up ^ "Geoscience Australia Gazeteer". Jump up ^ "South Australian State Gazeteer". Jump up ^ "Fun With Words: Word Oddities". Rinkworks.com. Retrieved 2010-08-22. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Typewriter Words". Questrel.com. Retrieved 2010-08-22. Jump up ^ "Science Links Japan | Two Unique Aftercataracts Requiring Surgical Removal". Sciencelinks.jp. 2009-03-18. Retrieved 2010-08-22. Jump up ^ "Dictionary entry for monimolimnion, a word that, at 13 letters, is longer than any of the words linked in the source above". Retrieved 2009-08-15. Jump up ^ "Word Records". Fun-with-words.com. Retrieved 2012-08-13. Jump up ^ "Typewriter Words". Wordnik.com. Retrieved 2011-01-15. Jump up ^ "The Dvorak Keyboard and You". Theworldofstuff.com. Retrieved 2010-08-22. Jump up ^ Wayside gleanings for leisure moments. J. Wilson and son. 1882. p. 122. Jump up ^ Even "longer" words exist (e.g., gigaparsecs, with a gigaparsec before the final s), according to the logic implicit in the jokes.