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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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

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.

The German language has lost its longest word. BBC News Magazine's Jon Kelly asks how lovers of plus-sized lexicography will cope. Sesquipedalians - lovers of long words - will shudder.

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.