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    What is the longest word used by Shakespeare, where does it appear, and why is it labeled as a "pedantic nonsense word"?

    Question #57563. Asked by UT-7. (Jun 05 05 10:25 PM)


    peasypod

    		That would be honorificabilitudinitatibus, appearing in Love's Labour's Lost.

    As for being a nonsense word, I use it all the time. Don't you?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honorificabilitudinitatibus

    Jun 05 05, 10:57 PM
    UT-7

    		Lovely !

    Jun 05 05, 11:06 PM
    lanfranco

    		I posted that word in the Spelling Bee question. It amazed me that no one asked what it was.

    Jun 06 05, 6:26 AM
    UT-7

    		Actually,it is a medieval Latin word which can be translated as "the state of being able to achieve honours"

    Jun 06 05, 7:28 AM
    gmackematix

    		Found in LLL and about an ell long.

    Jun 06 05, 10:42 AM

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