Subject: Re: disestablish?
To: None <simonb@telstra.com.au>
From: Lennart Augustsson <augustss@cs.chalmers.se>
List: tech-kern
Date: 02/18/1998 13:09:04
> Which dictionary?  There's that long coal-miner's lung disease in the
> Oxford dictionary that has 53 characters (pnuemonoultra-something).
> Hmm, a little off topic :)
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

pneu.mo.no.ul.tra.mi.cro.scop.ic.sil.i.co.vol.ca.no.co.ni.o.sis \'n(y)u:-m*-(.)no--.*l-tr*-.mi--kr*-'ska:p-ik-'sil-i-(.)ko--(.)v\ n [NL, fr. Gk pneumo-n + ISV ultramicroscopic + NL silicon +]a:l-'ka--no--.ko--ne--'o--s*s ISV volcano + Gk konis dust : a pneumoconiosis caused by the inhalation of very fine silicate or quartz dust

        -- Lennart