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Back when I was doing A-level chemistry there were thousands of impossible to pronounce words combined with numbers between words to denote the location of the bonds. Out of all the ones I came across, I think methyl orange stood out the most:
I believe the longest word in the English language is "Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicavolcanoconiosis ." It's a lung disease found among miners who ply their trade close to volcanoes. I guess volcanic dust is especially hard on the lungs.
As for the most often misspelled "common" English word, I'd have to go with "definitely." Notice there is no "a" in "definitely" but if you search "definately" on Google you get 35 million hits. I don't understand why this is such a difficult word to spell. Nonetheless, this misspelling has become so widespread and commonplace that I seriously believe it will become an accepted spelling by the Oxford English Dictionary within my lifetime.
Well I'm thinking...and a lot of "English" words that are hard are not really "English" at all -- like entrepreneur and yarmulke. Well those are not hard to pronounce really...
I generally do not speak words that I have trouble pronouncing and I only use 'big words' if I am under the impression that the person I am conversing with will understand them.
I do however misspell position quite often (for some reason I want to spell it positition...don't know why).
Like the guys in "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou", I can't say accompanist, and I'm not even sure I've spelled it right!
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