A Guide to Conservation Areas in Scotland. Conservation areas are areas of special architectural or historic interest, the character or appearance of which it is desirable to preserve or enhance.
Image caption The 63-letter word was created amid the BSE crisis. The German language has lost its longest word thanks to a change in the law to conform with EU regulations. Rindfleischetikettierungsueberwachungsaufgabenuebertragungsgesetz-meaning law delegating beef label monitoring - was introduced in 1999 in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.
What's the longest word ever to appear in literature? And what qualifies as a 'word'? The longest word in the English language (leaving literature to one side for a moment) is a staggering 189,819 letters long. Or rather, it is and it isn't. The chemical formula for the protein otherwise known as titin runs to 189,819 letters, but whether this constitutes a 'word' is a moot point.