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I Love to

I Love to expand my vocabulary. We should post interesting or unusual words with their meanings that we could learn and have fun with. (:

Nitehawk, did you see the National Spelling Bee on TV this evening? The words those kids can spell are amazing. Words even Old Cricket doesn't know! I was wondering if any of our Chatterboxers might be in the bee, but I guess it'd be hard to make time for studying all those words and Chatterbox.

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submitted by Nitehawlk, age 3.25, Somewhere out t
(May 28, 2009 - 9:38 pm)

back to the Inkwell

peumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (45 letters; a lung disease caused by breathing in certain particles) is the longest word in any English dictionary.

 

 

submitted by Zoe, age 13, Standish, Maine
(June 7, 2009 - 3:35 pm)

Yup. But isn't there an n after the first p? As in pneumonia? Cause that's how it's pronounced, I thought. And it means black lung disease. My amazing first grade teacher taught me that. :D

 

-EH

submitted by Emily H. :), age 13, Sparks, NV
(June 8, 2009 - 10:29 am)

Ammon Shea taught me that.

submitted by Mary W., age 11.41, NJ
(June 8, 2009 - 3:41 pm)

Sesquipedalian: someone who loves long words

Cephalopod: a squid, octopus, or Nautilus

Gastropod: a snail or slug

and my favorite: Tardigrade, an extremely cute, microscopic, transparent animal that can live just about anywhere except for deserts and won the Guinness World Record (2009) for the most heat-tolerant animal! They're also called Water Bears, by the way.

submitted by Ima
(June 12, 2009 - 5:27 pm)
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