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...is the authenticated plural, and 2 letters longer. Just thought you all might like to know that.

B

How can you have more than one a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust. I know I get all the junk through the letter box about is you father, grandfather, uncle, any male relative living or preferably dead a miner, (one disadvantage to living in an ex-mining community and being the son, grandson, nephew etc of white collar workers) to get compensation for all their life threatening/taking ailments. But surely there can be only one Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

Think of it in terms medical terminology, as a shortened version of 'cases of pneumono....'

This thread has made the Conversations section of my PS go a funny shape now.

B

And which Doctor is liable to use an concocted word in the plural for a rarely occuraing disease?

Forget I asked that.