Saturday, December 5, 2009

hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia

Published by bethany at 1:59 PM

main entry: hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia
part of speech: noun
definition: fear of long words
number of letters: 36

so all semester, and prior to my travels, i get a "word" of the day from dictionary.com. however, that is unrelated. i discovered this word when i looked up the world hippopotamus, needless to say i was absolutely amazed by this jumble of letters. just interesting.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

umm... how do you go about pronouncing that?! phonetics is not working for me in this situation!

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