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Long Words Frighten Me...!!

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Some words of English language really scared me out.Long words such as Conflagration,Aggrandizement or Disproportionate-seem very difficult to spell and I usually get fumbled over these spelling it wrongly.

If that is the situation with such easy words what would I do with more longer words.I wonder!For example take the case of this third longest word in the English language-

ANTIDISESTABLISHMENTARIANISM.
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Though,teachers of the language say there is nothing long or formidable about it.If you divide it into part,by cutting away the prefixes afore and suffixes after,we are left with the word ESTABLISH.This establish can be further cut down to the S T A.which comes from Latin verb STARE(to stand).Therefore this 28 letter word becomes a three letter roots S T A...All these parts add up to a word that means-Doctrine of opposition(anti)to the separation(dis)of an established church from the state.

The 2nd longest English word is more frightening.It's 45 letters.Spell it.

PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOKONIOSIS.
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Now chop up this giant into very fine pieces:

PNEUMONO:Lunges,ULTRA:Beyond,MICRO:small,SCOPIC:To view,SILICO:Silicon,VOLCANO:volcano,KONI:Dust or ash,SIS:A suffix that indicates illness.
Putting all these words together this word means:-A disease of lung caused by extremely small particles of vol conic ash or dust.

The third longest word has even 58 letters.Spell it if you can!!

DIISOBUTYLPHENOXYETHOXYETHYLIXMETHYLBENZYLAMNONIUMCHLORIDE.
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Hey...It's not a word but name of a drug.(HUFF...!!)

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Chopping words...

That's best way to remember spellings of long words.In school I knew a word which was supposed to be the longest word in English.But I have forgotten it.This is even longer.If you don't mind can I show this article to my children?They would love to have something to flaunt about with their friends.

Thanks for sharing this,
Uma