# Longest word is 45 letters...hardest word to pronounce...2?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 12, 2003, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-word-is-45-letters-hardest-word-to-pronounce-2/154507 "2003-02-12T03:14:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![Achernar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2003, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-word-is-45-letters-hardest-word-to-pronounce-2/154507/21 "2003-02-13T06:09:41Z")

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> \*Originally posted by r\_k \*  
> as I thought at the time, why choose that particular protein?

I thought that too. Maybe this word actually appeared in a publication somewhere?

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**Author:** ![Shalmanese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shalmanese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shalmanese)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2003, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-word-is-45-letters-hardest-word-to-pronounce-2/154507/22 "2003-02-13T12:39:14Z")

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Or maybe the editor for Guiness went, lesse, longest word, well its “m”, “e”, “t” ,“h”… “r”, “i”, “n”, “e”… aww, fuckit, this is getting ridiculous, Im going down to the pub.

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