Readers may know of this already, in which case, my apologies. My sister has just challenged me to find the longest word one can text on a pocket telephone using only the first press on each key. I assume any key may be used any number of times.

Why is it that, in English, when we write a sentence of the form "My name is (name) ... of nine Roman letters that spell "Juuitchan". So why do we write as in A, and not as in B? B is logically correct. However, in ordinary English

there is no such thing as a longest word in Dutch. Words can in principle have infinite (1) length. (1) Infinite in the mathematical sense: given a number of letters you can invent a word that is longer. That's not "'infinite' in

I know only a sprinkling of German, but I've been ... wind up being the equivalent of "horserace," "raincoatfactory," and "hospitalinsurance." Oh, I sure count the English ones as compounds, too, I don"t care