"It was until now the longest authentic word in German usage," Anatol Stefanowitsch, a Berlin professor of linguistics research told Die Welt. The big question they are asking is which word will now take its place. ![]() ![]() It was given the abbreviation RkReÜAÜG – which was itself unpronouncable.īut the 63-letter word was deemed no longer necessary after the EU halted BSE-testing on healthy cattle at abattoirs. The word, which means "the law concerning the delegation of duties for the supervision of cattle marking and the labelling of beef", was introduced in 1999 during the BSE crisis.
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