# Longest word in English (or Welsh for that matter :-) )

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**Created:** [April 27, 2015, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-word-in-english-or-welsh-for-that-matter/718675 "2015-04-27T21:43:00Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 27, 2015, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-word-in-english-or-welsh-for-that-matter/718675/2 "2015-04-27T22:05:18Z")

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> [@Senegoid](#):
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> Re: [What does antidisestablishmentarianism mean?](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1400/what-does-antidisestablishmentarianism-mean)
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> I thought every grade-school kiddie knew what it meant :dubious: in addition to how to spell it. I did.
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> Would this word be more common knowledge in England?
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> How about Wales?
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> Perhaps not, but you’ll certainly find many Welsh towns with names like that.

Such as the idylic Welsh hill Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateahaumaitawhitiurehaea-  
turipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu.

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