What is the longest word in the world: it takes 57 pages to write and more than three hours to pronounce
There is a word in the world that has 189,918 letters, making it the longest word in history. This word is the chemical name for the protein titin, which is responsible for muscle elasticity.
"Titin" is a polypeptide consisting of 34,350 amino acids. It is not surprising that its writing takes about 57 pages of text.
It takes on average three and a half hours to pronounce a word.
According to another version (namely, according to the Guinness Book of Records), the longest word is not related to titin.
It has 195 letters, is written in Sanskrit and represents a region in Tamil Nidu, India.
If we talk about the Russian language, then the longest word in it officially consists of 35 letters, and it is “very highly considerate”.
But there is one small but: in Russian, you can come up with a word that is longer than even the longest registered words. For example, the word "great-grandmother" can be continued literally to infinity, adding another "pra" to indicate an even more distant ancestor.
The same situation is with the word "позачный" - by adding another "поза", you can indicate a day that was even earlier. If you continue this word for 190,000 letters, it will indicate one of the days of the 15th century.
True, all these words will have an artificial origin.
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