[QUOTE=Estelyn Telcontar]
Insektenvernichtungsmittel - that's 26 letters, actually...
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das Insektenbekämpfungsmittel has 25 - at least most of the times I counted it ... no wonder the operas are so long
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I assign to Mordor anyone (and *gasp* some of them work at the BBC !) who pronounces "quarter" with a k sound not a "kw" sound. It irritates me - as does (and again the BBC employs repeat offenders) the incorrect use of titles. I know that will make me sound like a snob - it isn't to do with deference it is just wrong. So sad case that I am I wince when they refer to "Lord Sebastian Coe", "Princess Diana", " Lord Richard Attenborough" "Prime Minister Blair" ... but clearly no one cares any more(I think only M&S has a "nine items or fewer" till - bless them). This is perhaps extreme pedantry but it is part of a more worrying decline.