Alex Blaj, one of my historical friends just released a fun application for OS X. Listomator lets you do any operation with lists you ever dreamt of, and some that you didn’t dream about. It is not targeted at a programmer audience who would probably be more confortable doing some command line magic or firing up their favorite IDE, but I think for the non-geek it can be pretty useful.

So if you ever wondered about, the list of the top 10 longest words in english, here they come, brought to you by /usr/local/dict/words featuring Listomator :)

thyroparathyroidectomize
tetraiodophenolphthalein
scientificophilosophical
pathologicopsychological
formaldehydesulphoxylate
transubstantiationalist
thymolsulphonephthalein
scientificogeographical
pseudolamellibranchiate
Pseudolamellibranchiata

Funny how many of them are chemistry and medicine.

Actually it turns out that the longest word in a major dictionary (which does not exist in /usr/local/dict !!) is also a medical term:

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

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