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.
(45) PNEUMONOÂ­ULTRAÂ­MICROÂ­SCOPICÂ­SILICOÂ­VOLCANOÂ­CONIOSIS (also spelled PNEUMONOÂ­ULTRAÂ­MICROÂ­SCOPICÂ­SILICOÂ­VOLCANOÂ­KONIOSIS) = a lung disease caused by breathing in particles of siliceous volcanic dust. This is the longest word in any English dictionary. However, it was coined by Everett Smith, the President of The National Puzzlers' League, in 1935 purely for the purpose of inventing a new longest word.