•March 3, 2021•
By Jim Baumann
NP Guest Writer

When I was a lad, I thought “antidisestablishmentarianism” was the longest English word. I would wow people — or thought I wowed people — when I shared this tidbit with them in what must have been a series of random encounters.
I was impressed that it contains more letters than there are in the alphabet.
Of course, we didn’t have the internet then, so I figured that out by READING THE DICTIONARY.
I was a precocious and voracious reader. I think I might have just gotten bored midway through the A’s and figured that word was long enough for me.     Login or Subscribe to read the rest of this story.