Longest words spoken language, although they are not nonsense words. It is possible to make even longer words in this way, for example: " (176 letters, meaning "of 999,999,999,999 years old"). One of the longest common words is 31-letter ' – the dative singular form of "ninety-and-some years old one". Another common long word is ' (23 letters), "a 50 groszy coin". Theoretically, it is possible to create Russian words of unlimited length, for example: (", great great great...grandfather). Most likely one of the longest, originally Russian words is ('), which contains 35 letters. "[It] is an adjective in the bureaucratic language
English words of Greek origin to recognize words of Greek origin, and give hints as to their pronunciation and inflection. Some romanizations are not completely standard. The Ancient Greek diphthongs and may be spelled in three different ways in English: the digraphs "ae" and "oe"; the ligatures "æ" and "œ"; and the simple letter "e". The ligatures have largely fallen out of use worldwide; the digraphs are uncommon in American usage, but remain common in British usage. The spelling depends mostly on the variety of English, not on the particular word. Examples are: "encyclopaedia" / "encyclopædia" / "encyclopedia", "haemoglobin" / "hæmoglobin" / "hemoglobin", "oedema" /