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.
So what if we want a word that is not famous for being long, but a word that describes something real. What's the longest one of those? Science writer Sam Kean, in his book The Disappearing Spoon, worked really hard on this and after much sleuthing, he landed on a word that comes not from dancing English nannies but from virus-hunting scientists.