And waiting near the top of your search results will be Julien Miquel. Miquel, age 43, makes short YouTube videos that sound out English words, much like many other online instructors.

Experts from Preply have scoured the latest Oxford English Dictionary for the 10 longest words. Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis takes is the longest, made up of 45 letters.

For example, 'champagne' is borrowed from French and we pronounce it differently to the way it is spelt. As a result, it's hard to follow the spelling of English words and pronounce them accordingly.

But just remember this: If the words bright, thrill, and ask had their vowels and consonants in the same order as they were in Old English, we would now be saying them as "birght," "thirl," and ...

How long is the longest word in the English dictionary? At 45 letters, Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (ooft) is currently the longest word in standard English dictionaries.