What was the longest word in the first edition of Oxford dictionary?
FLOCCINAUCINIHILIPIL IFICATION = an estimation of something as worthless. This is the longest word in the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. Interestingly the most common letter in English, E, does not appear in this word at all, whilst I occurs a total of nine times. The word dates back to 1741. The 1992 Guinness Book of World Records calls floccinauci nihilipilification the longest real word in the Oxford English Dictionary, and refers to pneumonoultramicro scopicsilicovolcano koniosis as the longest made-up one.
