Talk:pseudoantidisestablishmentarianism

Has this word ever actually been used, other than as an attempt to make up the longest word in the English language? Antidisestablishmentarianism certaintly has had real use (in 19th century England, in discussion of proposals to disestablish the Church of England) -- but psuedoantidisestablishmentarianism?

Besides, I can invent even longer words using derivational morphology: e.g. psuedoantidisestablishmentarianistically, psuedoantidisestablishmentarianisticalness, semipsuedoantidisestablishmentarianisticalness, demi-semipsuedoantidisestablishmentarianisticalness, post-psuedoantidisestablishmentarianism (psuedoantidisestablishmentarianism meets postmodernism)...

Unless words have real use, they should not be in a dictionary... otherwise I can just go around adding all sorts of made up words or long-and-never-used derivations of existing ones...

This one does exist, it is ona list of teh longest words (that have been written down, for real use and not in use so that they can be longest words) did that make sence :-s.


 * I too don't particularly like these made up words. Their bona fides would be greatly enhanced by a verifiable quotation.  Nevertheless, I don't feel prepared to engage in edit wars over this issue.  I would prefer an attitude of benign condescension in this matter as would apply to the people who gave us Pi to 10,000 Places.  Their information is perfectly correct but absolutely useless. Eclecticology 20:35 Jan 26, 2003 (UTC)


 * The ways I normally use to find if a word is in actual are to,
 * Search Google
 * Search Usenet
 * Search the Chadwyk LION database
 * Search the Lexis-Nexis newspaper/magazine archive.
 * Search the OED


 * In this case I haven't found a single use of this word. --Imran 22:14 Jan 26, 2003 (UTC)

I saw this word in a qoute once, if i could only remember where.

I added this word, as i too have seen it written down before. I saw it about 5 years ago. -fonzy

The only words that should not be in wiktionary in my opinion are: 1)Made Up Words (unless used somewhere, like a famous book eg Hephelumps).

Okay, here's what I've found: Answers.com has a definition for it, and said definition matches the article posted here. Thus, I believe it has been confirmed and verified. May I thus remove the verification tags on the article? --TrekCaptainUSA 15:08, 23 October 2008 (UTC)


 * No. Verification requires 3 independent examples of use. At this point you have a tertiary mention Robert Ullmann 15:18, 23 October 2008 (UTC)