The Irony of a Monstrous Word At 36 letters long, it's one of the longest words in the dictionary.

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 ...

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