Wednesday, November 21, 2012

The Longest Word in English Takes 3.5 Hours to Pronounce

The longest word in English has 189,819 letters and would take you three and a half hours to pronounce correctly. Seriously. It's the chemical name of Titin (or connectin), a giant protein "that functions as a molecular spring which is responsible for the passive elasticity of muscle." You can listen to a guy pronounce the whole damn word. More »


Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/dgaGt-KDf48/the-longest-word-in-english-takes-35-hours-to-pronounce

APPLIED MATERIALS ARIAN SEMICONDUCTOR EQUIPMENT

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