letters) Long initialisms in Vietnamese include: (, "Socialist Republic of Vietnam", 8 characters) (, "Viet Cong", 10 characters) In modern Vietnamese, compound words can be identified fairly easily within title cased text: a morpheme that begins with a capital letter followed by one or more morphemes that begin with a lowercase letter. For example, ("socialism") is capitalized as one component within . Welsh , a railway station on the island of Anglesey in Wales, is the longest place name in the Welsh language. At 51 letters in the Welsh alphabet (the digraphs and are each collated as single letters) the name can be translated as "St Mary's church in the hollow of the white hazel near to the rapid whirlpool and the church of St Tysilio of the red cave". However, it was artificially contrived in the 1860s as a publicity stunt, to give the station the longest name of any railway station in the United Kingdom. Long words are comparatively rare in Welsh. Candidates for long words other than proper nouns include the following (the digraph is also treated as a single letter, as is in many instances including in the last word below): (antidisestablishmentarianism) (microcomputers) (anticonstitutionalists) (semiconductors) (they tyrannised) (intercession) ( can be added to form the plural, and the word can be further lengthened slightly by initial mutation: , "my intercessions") See also Morphology (linguistics) Longest English sentence Coxeter group - mathematical concept whose entities are sometimes called words References Word coinage Words af:Langste woord