Antidisestablishmentarianism: Difference between revisions

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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]].

* 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.

 

== [[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.

 

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