Hippopotomonstresesquippedaliophobia

[Hipp-po-po-tome-own-stra-sess-kwip-a-doll-i-o-fo-bia]

36 letters

16 syllables

3rd longest word in the english language

It's definition?

The fear of big words.

It's irony like this that helps me through the day...^_^

 

How did you even manage to spell that XD

 

O_o Wow....now I learned a new word....Thank Cin! lol.

 

Did you get that word from Wikipedia?

Will you try & use that word in a sentence?

 

....I have hippoppootomonstressequippedaliophobia twords...Zombies?

 

Sentence:

"ZOMG, I'm afraid of large words, I must have hippopotomonstresquippedaliophobia!!"

 

OoOoOoOh the irony of it indeed. XD

(I wonder if that word fits in any dictionary.)

 

Do you think you could make a song out of it like "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" from Mary Poppins?

 

What words can be longer than that ? =O

 

There is a place in New Zealand called Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu

look



or Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch in Wales

 

they seriously name places after those long words?!

 

That must be hard for the tourists, heck even for the locals.

 

Now that's just plain stupid. @ DA's post.

 

Yeah, i knew that~ <3

 

WORD: diletinkilovelifsidontdehonkumeshonnunmoonhelinculofdelithgoudofmolithinethllikooc

DEFINITION: being scared of everything everyone and any death

and yes this is a real word

 

haha! Man...those places are WHACK after naming places 40 letters long, lol

 

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

one of the longest recognised words in most english dictionarys, it means:

'a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust usually found in volcanoes' :p

 

I was seriously about to post this today... XD;

Damn you, Cin, for beating me to it... XD;

 

wow i cant even say the frist part of those words XD

 

Bunterx...I hate you. I was just about to post that...XD

Floccinaucinilihilipilification : The act of thinking something is worthless.