The longest word is really, really long
In the time it takes to recite this word, you could watch ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ and still have a few minutes to spare.
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Sorry, Ms. Poppins, despite your valiant effort, you don’t own the world’s longest word.
That title goes to some form of protein. The word for it is 189,819 letters long and takes approximately three and a half hours to recite.
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