“I know the longest word in the whole English language,” Jimmy tells Jenny by the playground swings. “It’s antidisestablishmentarianism.” Jenny slurps up the last of her juice box, unimpressed. “Is ...

Back in grade school, words like "onomatopoeia" and "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" seemed insanely complicated and long. Surprisingly, neither of these is the ...

This word was cleverly coined in 1935 by puzzle enthusiasts aiming to build the longest English word possible, and it later made its way into reference books like the Oxford English Dictionary and ...

For my purposes here and now, I would make the case for a regular, easy to pronounce, word as being the longest word. You may have heard this before, but I’m reminding you now, that “smiles” is, by ...

Most people walk around believing they have a pretty good sense of how English works. We learn the alphabet, pick up some spelling rules, and memorize how to pronounce tricky words, feeling confident ...

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious needs to be taken down a few notches. The moment that Dick Van Dyke and Julie Andrews danced to the nearly unreadable word in Mary ...

At first glance, it looks like someone enjoyed taking the spaces out of a sentence; in reality, it's a single word by ...