How Big Is Yours?

I was watching tv this evening, and for once it was something that wasn't DVRed so I couldn't skip the commercials.
So then that commercial with the spelling bee comes on. (I think it's for Geico™©® or some other insurance company. You can never tell these days. Commercials never tell you what they're actually advertising anymore.)
Anyway, the word comes up on the screen:
floccinaucinihilipilification
I realize that I know how to correctly pronounce the word (unlike the man on the screen), but I have no idea what it means.
So I looked it up.
It was derived from four Latin words flocci, nauci, nihili, and pili which all mean "of little or no value." And the -fication just makes it a noun. So "to floccinaucinihilipilificate" is just a verbose way to say "talkin' shit."

Thus begins my evening's quest:
To find the longest word!

Apparently, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, supercalifragilisticexpialidocious is a real word.
Neat.
Made up words from movies can become real words.
I still know two words that are longer.

In third grade, I learned the word pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
It's the scientific name for the "black lung" disease that seems to be exclusively found in coal miners, but not their daughters, so Sissy Spacek is safe.
*whew* We can all breathe a sigh of relief now!
It's the longest known disease name.
"Some people" say disease names don't count for the longest word designation, though.
I won't listen to "some people," or "they" either.
But I still know a longer word.

In fourth grade (hey, I'm a yankee, we have really good schools up there), I learned about Lake Webster. It's in Webster, MA, right near the border of CT and RI. It's also known by its Indian name:
Lake Chargoggagoggmanchaugagoggchaubunagungamaugg
It's a Nipmuc Indian name that means "You fish on your side of the lake; I fish on my side; no one fishes the middle."
This is the sort of useless information that fills my head.
I learned how to spell that word when I was 8, and I haven't forgotten it.

But tonight I came across a few others that were even longer.
A village in Wales called:
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
This Welsh town actually exists and its name translates as "The church of St. Mary in the hollow of white hazel trees near the rapid whirlpool by St. Tysilio's of the red cave."
Neat.
I actually heard of this place once, I think it was on Ripley's Believe It or Not, but because I never learned how to properly pronounce it, it slipped out of my memory over time.
Also in Wales:
Gorsafawddachaidraigodanheddogleddollonpenrhynareurdraethceredigion
It's a railway station so named purely as an attempt to get into the Guinness Book of World Records.
To no avail.
Because there's village in New Zealand called:
Tetaumatawhakatangihangakoauaotamateaurehaeaturi-pukapihimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuaakitanarahu
It's 92 letters long, and this place holds the Guinness World Record for the longest name.
It translates into English as "The brow of the hill where Tamatea, with the bony knees, who slid and climbed mountains, the great traveller, sat and played on the flute to his beloved."
Again, that's neat.
But someone in Thailand is angry!
Their village is called:
Krungthepmahanakornamornratanakosin-mahintarayutthayamahadilokphopnopparatrajathani-buriromudomrajaniwesmahasatharnamornphimarn-avatarnsathitsakkattiyavisanukamprasit
It's a whopping 163 letters long, and translates into English as "City of Angels."
Imagine if that was how we said Los Angeles?
If Thai replaced Spanish as the dominant influence in Southern California:
"Hey guys, Sarah French is in Krungthepmahanakornamornratanakosin-mahintarayutthayamahadilokphopnopparatrajathani-buriromudomrajaniwesmahasatharnamornphimarn-avatarnsathitsakkattiyavisanukamprasit right now, but she can't send a postcard because the postage for the 12-foot long card that fits the name on it costs $318.97"
It's also the "official" name for the city of Bangkok, but the reason why the Guinness Book won't recognize it as the longest name is because it's not used on a daily basis by the locals.
There's also apparently a name for a chemical compound that is 1913 letters long, but that was the most information I could get on it.
I guess you can make up anything if you just throw a bunch of random prefixes and suffixes onto something.
Neat.