Country has lost its longest word following the repeal of a complex law. June 8, 2013— -- Call it linguistic precision engineering. The German language permits the creation of words of ...

There is a long list of long German words. Sometimes, they even show up in the real world. The longest word in the German language—the 63-letter-long ...

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What was once the longest word in the German language, a tongue consisting of many ridiculously lengthy words, is no more. The term ...

German’s super-long compound words are legendary—even Mark Twain had something to say about them. This quick video demonstrates how those words are constructed. But Germany had not in fact ...

Rindfleischetikettierungsueberwachungsaufgabenuebertragungsgesetz, a German word meaning “law delegating beef label monitoring,” no longer exists, apparently. But ...

German spelling bees are about to get easier: The longest word in German has been retired. It has 63 letters. Good morning, I'm Renee Montagne. German spelling bees are about to get easier.

BERLIN — A tweak to state laws in the German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania to conform with current EU regulations has caused an unexpected casualty: the longest word in the German language.

German manages to blow English out of the water with a letter count over three times as long. Before you get your head around the concept of building words through combining two, three four ...

Words with 60-odd letters in them? Nothing unusual in German. Henning dissects a couple of examples and proves that German can be endless fun - quite literally.

German is known for its extra long compound words. When Mark Twain complained that some German words were "so long they have a perspective," he was thinking of words like Freundschaftsbezeigungen ...