Joyce Fetteroll

I found this at Oxford English Dictionary site where they've noted
that "set" has been unseated from it's top position at least
temporarily as they wend slowly through updating it. I'm guessing
just from the shortness of all the words that, except for the
prefixes, that they're all Old English.

> set (the verb) no longer the longest entry in the OED
> For many years the verb to set has been cited as the longest entry
> in the OED. But a recheck shows that it has at last been toppled
> from this position. The longest entry in the revised matter is
> represented by the verb to make (published in June 2000). However,
> it is quite possible that set will regain its long-held position at
> the top of the league of long words when it comes itself to be
> revised.
>
> In ranking order, the longest entries currently in the online Third
> Edition of the OED are: make (verb - revised), set (verb), run
> (verb), take (verb), go (verb), pre- (revised), non- (revised),
> over- (revised), stand (verb), red, and then point (the noun -
> revised).
>

Joyce