Just a word on all the solutions that use sort as the means of getting the longest word
even more abstract: don't use sort on a data structure if you need just a single value. isn't it obvious ?! :))
 
heh, the rest is history, you just didn't want to understand what i meant... I thought it was pretty obvious as long as I clearly spoken in my entire message of wordS ... with the exception of the title :P~
thx again to BrowserUk for clearing things up for you with his reply. :)

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