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{{trope}}
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''Far more beautiful after the schism.
''[[Burma Shave]]'' }}▼
''Some take issue with this,
''And support anti[[Midword Rhyme|dis-]]
''establishmentarianism.''
'''"Antidisestablishmentarianism
You see, this infamously long-winded word is more famous for being long, unwieldy, and taking a heck of a long time to type. If anybody needs a go-to big word, this is the one they usually pull out. (Especially if it's at a [[Spelling Bee]].) It's not even [[wikipedia:Longest word in English|the longest word in the English language, though it is the longest one that is neither a scientific term nor specifically coined to make a huge word.]] Why this word? While it's long, it's really just "establish" with a bunch of fairly standard prefixes and suffixes tacked on. It's not even hard to spell, since it's spelled exactly as it's pronounced (without any of English's 1001 special spelling exceptions or oddities<ref>You might note it still contains two different ways to pronounce the letter "a"; three to pronounce "s" in one of which it is combined with another letter; depending on whether one is speaking British or American two to three ways to pronounce "i", the third of which is as a diphtong; and three different ways to pronounce "e"; all within the same word. And a couple of the vowel sounds are written with a different letter in different places. But by the standards of English, that's "spelled exactly as it's pronounced".</ref>). Possibly because it's [[Inherently Funny Words|Inherently Funny.]] A favorite form of [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness]].
▲"Antidisestablishmentarianism," as a word, technically refers to a specific political movement which would have opposed removing the Church of England from its status as the "official" church of Ireland. ([[That Other Wiki]] [[wikipedia:Antidisestablishmentarianism|has some information]], if you're curious.) This is not about that movement, however. This is about the word.
▲You see, this infamously long-winded word is more famous for being long, unwieldy, and taking a heck of a long time to type. If anybody needs a go-to big word, this is the one they usually pull out. (Especially if it's at a [[Spelling Bee]].) It's not even [[wikipedia:Longest word in English|the longest word in the English language, though it is the longest one that is neither a scientific term nor specifically coined to make a huge word.]] Why this word? While it's long, it's really just "establish" with a bunch of fairly standard prefixes and suffixes tacked on. It's not even hard to spell, since it's spelled exactly as it's pronounced (without any of English's 1001 special spelling exceptions or oddities<ref>You might note it still contains two different ways to pronounce the letter "a"; three to pronounce "s" in one of which it is combined with another letter; depending on whether one is speaking British or American two to three ways to pronounce "i", the third of which is as a diphtong; and three different ways to pronounce "e"; all within the same word. And a couple of the vowel sounds are written with a different letter in different places. But by the standards of English, that's "spelled exactly as it's pronounced".</ref>). Possibly because it's [[Inherently Funny Words|Inherently Funny.]] A favorite form of [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness]].
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== Advertising ==
* One DQ commercial has a father agree to share some ice cream with his toddler if he can say "one little word: Antidisestablishmentariansim." The kid manages to squeak it out flawlessly.
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* ''[[Blackadder]]:'' "I'll be back before you can say Antidisestablishmentarianism." Since the "you" in question is [[The Ditz|Prince George]], he's right. Although he needs two days.
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** Notable for Blackadder leaving to perform an act of antidisestablishmentarianism.
* In an episode of ''[[Big Time Rush]]'', during a montage of the boys answering many arbitrary questions, Logan replies solely with the word.
* ''[[The Honeymooners]]'' episode "The $99,000 Answer''
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'''Ralph:''' I'll spell it. ''[pause]'' I'll spell it!
'''Alice:''' Well? Go ahead.
'''Ralph:''' ''[agitated]'' I'll spell it when you give me $16,000 for spelling it!
'''Alice:''' ''[disbelieving]'' Sixteen thousand dollars for spelling it?! I'll give you ''$32,000'' if you can SAY it! }}
* In a segment on Victorian school punishments in the second ''[[Horrible Histories (TV series)|Horrible Histories]]'' TV series, one boy was being punished for misspelling antidisestablishmentarianism.
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* Other than the chorus, the final word in [[Lemon Demon]]'s [[Word Salad Lyrics|Word Disassociation]] is "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0FbfSSdxhI Antidisestablishmentarianism]."
* [[Eminem]] uses this in his song 'Almost Famous' in reference to the word length being similar to how well endowed he is.
* [http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2005/apr/09/monarchy.guardianleaders An editorial in the Guardian] about some aspect of the Church of England, which included the sentence "[[Confusing Multiple Negatives|The case for antidisestablishmentarianism has never been more threadbare.]]" Perfectly appropriate to the context, but you just knew the writer was hugging himself for having managed to get it in.▼
== [[Literature]] ==
* J.R. Ward's [[Black Dagger Brotherhood|The Black Dagger Brotherhood series]] has Rhage use this word whist describing his attraction to the female protagonist of the second novel.
=== Periodicals ===
▲* [http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2005/apr/09/monarchy.guardianleaders An editorial in the ''Guardian''] about some aspect of the Church of England, which included the sentence "[[Confusing Multiple Negatives|The case for antidisestablishmentarianism has never been more threadbare.]]" Perfectly appropriate to the context, but you just knew the writer was hugging himself for having managed to get it in.
== [[Video Games]] ==
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Suzy Gee from ''[[Nukees]]'' starts an organization called "Citizens Opposed to Antidisestablishmentarianism." The name can, with some generosity, be said to fit - she's trying to stop a bill that would [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|explicitly tie marriage to religious faith]].
* ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'' had a mention of [[Subspace Ansible|hypernet]] streamozine named ''[//www.schlockmercenary.com/2014-10-19 Ignobellishmentarianism]''.
{{quote|The name Ignobellishmentarianism is a mash-up of "Ignobel" (that ancient award for edgy-silly research), "embellishment," and "antidisestablishementarianism," which is itself a silly word meaning "opposed to the tearing down of the establishment." Titles like this one are a very natural outgrowth of the ever-narrowing quest for trademarkable words. And yes, there's a paper on that very trend in the December 3062 issue. }}
== [[Web Original]] ==
* One series on [[
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* On ''[[Arthur (animation)|Arthur]]'', they had a spelling bee, and the resident [[Smart Guy]] tried to spell this word during a practice session.
* Showed up in ''[[A Pup Named Scooby
* This also showed up in an [[Imagine Spot]] during an episode of ''[[Doug]].'' Doug misspells "bologna" in a spelling bee and gets laughed at, while [[The Ace|Chalky]] flawlessly rattles off "antidisestablishmentarianism" and is applauded.
* In ''[[Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks]]'', one of Piggley's grandsons tricked the other out of dessert with the riddle "Antidisestablishmentarianism is a long word. Think I can spell it?" He spelled it "I-T".
* ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]:'' Apparently, they found a cure.
** "I can finally take off this puce ribbon."
** [[In-Universe]] [[Fridge Logic]]: "Wait, I thought it was more an ideological stance than a disease?"
* One of the [[Eyecatch|bumpers]] of ''[[Recess]]'' involved Gretchen saying "We'll be back before you can say antidisestablishmentarianism".
* In an early episode of ''[[Danny Phantom]]'', "One of A Kind," look closely: [http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w80/Zthese6/OoaK02a/OoaK02a-177.png the test] Danny receives back has "antidisestablishment" as the entire first line.
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* ''[[Aqua Teen Hunger Force]]'' had the character of the Robot Turkey Ghost of Christmas Past From the Future cite "antidisestablishmentarianism" as one of the outcomes of the great chicken uprising lead by Carl.
== Other Media ==
* [[Netflix]] runs a series of radio ads based on a fictional quiz show with borderline [[Calvin Ball]]-esque [[Non Sequitur]] answers. One of the questions is "What word comes next in this sequence? Crustacean, kumquat?" and the answer, of course, is "Antidisestablishmentarianism."
** And a new one: "Tree, sky...." "Transubstantianalism."
* Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious is a similar sort of word.
** At one time, Disney had sing-a-long videoes put out with intros to each song by Professor Ludwig Van Drake. The cartoon before the sing-a-long to Supercalifragilisticexplialidocious involves a gag about antidisestablishmentarianism not being the word he was thinking of.
* Shows up in ''[[Dave Barry]]'s Money Secrets'' when showing the proper way to write a resume:
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* The Elizabethan form of this was the Latin word ''honorificabilitudinitatibus'', (Literally, "to those things in the state of being able to achieve honours."
* The Dutch variant is ''Hottentottententententoonstelling'', Khoikhoi tents exhibition. It can be expanded to, among others, ''Hottentottententententoonstellingsterrein'' (Khoikhoi tents exhibition terrain).
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