21 November 2012

World’s Longest Word Takes 3.5 Hours To Pronounce

[Click here to view the video in this article]







The world’s longest word consists of 189,819 letters and would take you approximately three-and-a-half hours to pronounce.



The chemical name for titan—a human protein that is the largest known protein—it is obviously far too long for us to type it out here.



However, you can download a 65KB text file of the word over here and try reading it out—if you are looking for the most geeky and boring way to waste your time.



Alternatively, you can also attempt to bore yourself to death by watching this guy read the word out in its entirety:







[via Geekologie]