The 82nd Annual Academy Awards were held on Sunday March 7, 2010 at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood. Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin co-hosted the Oscars. For the last few years the Academy Awards have taken place on the last Sunday in February. However in order to avoid conflicts with the February 28 closing ceremonies [more...]
The longest word in a recognized English language dictionary is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, but few people would ever have used that word or heard it spoken. So what is the longest word that is in everyday speech? I wasn’t sure how to define common usage, so I settled on a completely arbitrary criterion: the word needed to [more...]
To figure out what is the longest word, we need to ask ourselves first what a “real” word is. In scientific usage, you can give chemicals names hundreds or even thousands of letters long by stringing together all sorts of word parts. Also, at least in theory, just as you could have an anti-missile, you [more...]