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Word of the day besides "murmur".

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16 August 2007, 06:42 PM
dragonfly
Word of the day besides "murmur".
cacophony
Gr. kakos, kaka: bad + phono-: sound

And tinntinnabulation!

".... what a great word: tinntinnabulation"
-R.B.

I found these great words about the same time in high school. Fun.
16 August 2007, 09:42 PM
Nard Kordell
...and then there is a....
SEPTUAGENARIAN

That's what Ray used to be.

What do they call it when you are hitting 87?

...an OCTOGENERIAN
(Well, at least it has something like OCTOBER in the word!)

Just how high do these age definitions go?
17 August 2007, 09:41 AM
fjp451
S...U...M. . .m. . .e . . . r . . .
20 August 2007, 12:37 PM
rocket
chimera


She stood silently looking out into the great sallow distances of sea bottom, as if recalling something, her yellow eyes soft and moist...

rocketsummer@insightbb.com
21 August 2007, 09:53 AM
Doug Spaulding
Mockery


"Live Forever!"
23 August 2007, 07:46 PM
dragonfly
floccipaucinihilipilification

And (because to-the-point people are sometimes neater than phony intellectuals) Helen Gurley Brown's version of same:

pippypoo


"Save your freedom. If anyone tells you you may not read Harry Potter because of 'witchcraft', run! Shun him. He's a Fireman."
24 August 2007, 07:44 AM
Braling II
dragonfly,
Believe it or not, floccipaucinihilipilification
already came up some time ago!
Of course, that doesn't stuctify its being posted again!
24 August 2007, 08:58 AM
biplane1
Braling II, are you trying to say that it doesn't nullify that other long word being used?
24 August 2007, 09:02 AM
biplane1
Braling II, I am sorry to report this but I checked the word stuctify on Dictionary.com and it said that there were no listings for such a word.

Where might you have come across it?
24 August 2007, 12:16 PM
Nard Kordell
biplane1: WHAT? You do not have the
"BRALING II FUNDAMENTAL DICTIONARY"

Besides that, I do believe structify (a slightly different spelling)...may be a computer gaming word. Maybe!
24 August 2007, 03:27 PM
Braling II
APPY-POLLY-LOGIES TO ALL!

A rare Braling II typo there.
The word is stultify!
31 August 2007, 07:45 AM
Braling II
catachresis
31 August 2007, 11:39 AM
biplane1
Boy, am I relieved!!!!
31 August 2007, 12:19 PM
philnic
Sesquipedelian.


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05 September 2007, 11:21 PM
Nard Kordell
The fear of long words.

As it is referred to in the medical community:
hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia

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