Someone asked me to name the longest word in the English language. It depends on whom you believe. Oxford says it's pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism, but Voltaire used an even longer one: metaphysicotheologocosmonigology. And there are still longer ones in the Guinness Book of Records: aequeosalinocalcalinoceraceoaluminosocupreovitriolic. I guess before we start to argue about it, we have to define the word "word" and the phrase "English word." Now, we have the basis for real argument.
(My favorite long German word is Funkelnagelneuenspiel.)
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