Thread: 'Oldest English words' identified
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Old Friday, April 22, 2011
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yeah.the word oldest made me think of the longest english word.the longest English word(non-technical,i.e. not the name of any disease etc) is
"flocci*nauci*nihili*pili*fication" and it means "nothing".amazing?

wonder,where did these asterisks come from?
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