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[quote=qprogeny79]honorificabilitudinitatibus -- honorableness. (NB -- this is the longest word used by shakespeare -- it's in love's labour's lost, act v, scene i, spoken by prospero. interestingly, it's an anagram of the latin phrase hi ludi f. baconis nati tuiti orbi, which means "these plays, f. bacon's offspring, are preserved for the world." of course, this is widely cited as evidence that francis bacon wrote shakespeare's plays.)
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Unfortunately I have to finally be the one to call you up on the fact that Prospero isn't in Love's Labours Lost, he is, of course, in The Tempest.
Can't be arsed to see if the word's still in there though, my memory doesn't serve quite so well as yours for long-word recall.
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