Dictionary

When I was a kid, I was wrong about so many things.

I thought craneflies, or daddy longlegs, were the “most poisonous spider in the world,” but had no way of administering their toxins (wrong on many counts).

I also thought the longest word in the English language was antidisestablishmentarianism, but it is in fact pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis – a lung disease caused by inhalation of silicate or quartz dust, apparently.

Even as an adult, though, I would never have guessed what some experts deem the “most complex” word a standard dictionary has to offer.

And nor did the members of r/todayilearned, who were as surprised as I was to find out it’s “run”.

Why is “run” considered the most complex word in English?

It’s because the word has so many definitions (645 for the verb form alone, the........

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