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imjustaguy
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« Reply #15 on: February 18, 2004, 02:18:40 PM »

philodox (FIL-uh-dox)
person in love with his own opinions, who loves to hear himself talk

I'm the real philodox, gotta represent.
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« Reply #16 on: February 18, 2004, 02:30:09 PM »

resistentialism-
seemingly spiteful behavior manifested by inanimate objects

I get mad at toasters that don't toast all the way.
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« Reply #17 on: February 19, 2004, 11:55:35 AM »

Awesome, imjustaguy.  Keep 'em coming.

Benj
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« Reply #18 on: February 19, 2004, 01:25:11 PM »

I'd been told "antidisetablishmentarism" was the longest English word, but my Eng. teacher was off by a dozen letters.  Here's Mr. Big himself:

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis- a lung disease

A foreign word: Irapusatinkaatsempokitasanoigavetapaakemparorokarityo - They'll probably go head over heels into the water when they arrive but won't stay that way.
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« Reply #19 on: February 19, 2004, 07:37:45 PM »

Dear lord.
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« Reply #20 on: March 13, 2004, 10:08:57 PM »

Tmesis                       separation of the parts of a word by another word, e.g. abso-bloody-lutely
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« Reply #21 on: March 20, 2004, 01:20:04 AM »

Bibliobibuli - people who read so much that they're oblivious to the world around them

Zymurgy - the study of fermentation (aka "drinking")
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« Reply #22 on: March 21, 2004, 04:27:13 PM »

griffonage - illegible handwriting
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« Reply #23 on: March 30, 2004, 03:08:48 AM »

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious-  
     the word supposedly coined by Mary Poppins to make kids sound “precocious,” was actually invented by turn-of-the-century Scottish coal miners. It was used to request “the works” from prostitutes by men too shy to recite specific acts.
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« Reply #24 on: March 30, 2004, 03:40:35 PM »

Seriously?  Wow!
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« Reply #25 on: March 30, 2004, 08:09:37 PM »

Yeah I know, I didn't know the Scottish were still mining for coal up to at least 1999-2000 either.
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« Reply #26 on: May 22, 2004, 11:10:20 PM »

apodyopsis (AP-oh-dy-AHP-sis)
act of mentally undressing someone... mmm Billl Clinntttonnnn...
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« Reply #27 on: May 23, 2004, 07:23:33 AM »

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Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious-
the word supposedly coined by Mary Poppins to make kids sound “precocious,” was actually invented by turn-of-the-century Scottish coal miners. It was used to request “the works” from prostitutes by men too shy to recite specific acts.

Also: 'Supercalafajalistickespeealadojus' was already a copyrighted song when Disney stole the word (with tiny variations ala Vanilla Ice) and wrote their own song, keeping all royalties.  That dirty Poppins.


And now, more foreign floccinaucinihilipilification:

Lithuanian
NEBEPRISIKISKIAKOPUSTELIAUJANCIUOSIUOSE - males who aren't gathering enough wood sorrel by themselves anymore

Russian
ZAGIPNOTIZIROVAVSHEMUSYA - he who has hypnotized himself

Turkish
ÇEKOSLOVAKYALILASTIRAMADIKLARIMIZDANMISINIZ - Are you one of the people whom we couldn't Czechoslovakianize?

Hungarian
Megszentségteleníthetetlenségeskedéseitekért - for your constant mentioning of the fact that [a particular thing] is unprofanable

Mohawk
TKANUHSTASRIHSANUHWE'TSRAAKSAHSRAKARATATTSRAYERI - the praising of the evil of the liking of the finding of the house is right

Dutch
ZANDZEEPSODEMINERAALWATERSTEENSTRALEN - Go away.
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« Reply #28 on: September 11, 2006, 11:12:18 AM »

A good website for word trivia:
http://members.aol.com/gulfhigh2/words.html

You may not have noticed but I'm making an effort to bring some old word games back; theres some awesome stuff in these here archives.
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« Reply #29 on: September 11, 2006, 01:07:22 PM »

Quote from: "Doraemon"
A good website for word trivia:
http://members.aol.com/gulfhigh2/words.html

You may not have noticed but I'm making an effort to bring some old word games back; theres some awesome stuff in these here archives.


Excellent work.  I only wish that I could contribute, but alas; I know no words.
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