What's the first long word you learned how to spell?

[frankfrank]

This question involves words that are more than 10 letters long.

Your answer need not be in English - because there are members here whose native languages are French, Japanese, German, Russian, etc. Some very common German words are very long. However, because I'm in the United States, I was raised with English...

PROPER NAME: Mississippi. (I learned this real early, in school - "M, I, crookedletter, crookedletter, I, crookedletter, crooked letter, I pee-pee in your eye")

NON-capitalized word: modernization (I might have learned an 11 or 12 letter word before this, but this was the first "real long" word I could spell. Strange choice, huh?)

 

[Swellegant]

"Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" (I loved Mary Poppins when I was a kid). But as for a real word, I learned to spell "Grandmother" and the very long name of our street long before I learned to spell anything else.

 

[Soilwork]

Plausable dinability.

which I guess is two words.

 

[Croynan]

A Question of Attribution - A Play By Alan Bennett

Pardon my sarcasm, but logically and using COMMON SENSE - how is anyone going to and or supposed to remember the first long word in their vocabulary and or spelling? Do you want the year, the month, the week, the day, the hour, and the minute it happened?

Think about it and how and when a child learns things - i don't think a detailed record of that is kept anywhere, even by mother nature, herself. She has, quite frankly other things to do and take care of.

no offense intended, truly, but these sorts of questions sometime makes the village idiot wonder what is going on in other people's minds besides his own battered one.



eM.

 

[Marbas]

The first long word I ever remember learning how to spell was 'hippopotamus'.

 

[secondmonkey]

I don't even remember what I had for breakfast.

 

[chas007]

I have to go with Mississippi and then it would be encyclopedia.

 

[bobeeboi3767]

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[justsimon]

Archaeology

 

[Swellegant]

[...]how is anyone going to and or supposed to remember the first long word in their vocabulary and or spelling?[...]

I remember the instances I cited quite clearly. I had the Mary Poppins album (33 rpm, natch), and I remember sitting on the floor with it and a pad of paper copying all the letters in "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" so that I could impress and amaze the adults with my erudition (a word I didn't know yet, of course).

And I distinctly remember sitting at the breakfast table (it was white, circular, with gold fleurs-de-lys in it) when I was five, with the Grandmother teaching me my letters... we spelled my name, and my sister's name, Mommy and Daddy, then her name and Grandpa's name and their address (where I now live). It was long before we covered those things in school.

 

[seven_sins]

simultaneously - Our pastor used it in a sermon when I was young and no one knew what it meant.

 

[MidnightPrism]

JEREMIAH... and it took me a little while to spell that

 

[RenaissanceMan]

Probably my own last name if that counts....12 letters long.

One of those long Polish ones basically everyone butchers in pronunciation.

 

[hotcbr]

Mississippi.

 

[SilverRRCloud]

Die Donaudampfschifffahrtskapitänswitwe.

Sounds awesome, doesn't it?

SC

 

[RationalLunacy]

homosexual

 

[Kulindahr]

antidisestablishmentarianism

in sixth grade

 

[Ginge]

questionnaire and that was only because someone spelt it wrong on a questionnaire (questionair) and i had to go and check how it was spelt correctly

 

[jwest]

respect
not that long, but difficult when your 6 or 7

 

[Kulindahr]

same as me.
then in grade 8 I learned "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis"

Yeah! I remember that word. And from 8th grade, too, I think.