Longest word in English the spa waters at Bath, England, is attributed to Dr. Edward Strother (1675–1737). The word is composed of the following elements: The longest officially recognized place name in an English-speaking country is "Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu" (57 letters), which is a hill in New Zealand. The name is in the Māori language. A longer and widely recognised version of the name is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu (85 letters), which appears on the signpost at the location (see the photo on this page). In Māori, the digraphs "ng" and "wh" are each treated as single letters. In Canada, the longest place name is "Dysart, Dudley, Harcourt, Guilford,
John Longest John Longest John Isbell Longest (April 24, 1860 – March 21, 1933) was a teacher, farmer and Democratic legislator from Troy, Mississippi. Longest was born on April 24, 1860, in Lee County, the son of Ruffin Longest and Sarah Louis (Thompson) Longest. His paternal ancestors came from Virginia; his great-grandfather, James Longest, served in the American Revolutionary War; the maternal line was Scotch-Irish, and settled in Alabama. Mr. Longest attended country schools assiduously in youth, a paternal order always keeping him at his desk throughout the ten months' session; he entered and graduated from Iuka Normal Institute in 1889, with