The longest word in the English language is pneumonultramicroscopicsilicovolcaniconiosis, which consists of 44 letters, and is the name for a mining disease of the lungs. Hemophilia A is a genetic disease that leaves the sufferer's blood unable to clot effectively. This means that if the hemophiliac is cut or has what would otherwise be a minor hemorrhage into a muscle, he is at risk of bleeding to death. The X-chromosome genetically carries the disease.
Men have only one X-chromosome, which they inherit from their mothers, while women have two.
Thus a male child born to a woman who carries the hemophilia gene has a 50 percent chance of having the disease himself. The most diffiult tongue-twister is The sixth sick Sheik s sixth sheep s sick. Perhaps the most difficult is the Xhosa tongue-twister Iqaqa laziqikaqika kwaze kwaqhawaka uqhoqhoqha which means the shunk rolled down and ruptured its larynx. Hitler had two testicles. They just did not work.