Word Of The Day
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http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/floccinaucinihilipilification[^]
Everything makes sense in someone's mind
"Bollocks". Works for me.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Even when you do, it's floccinaucinihilipilification
Everything makes sense in someone's mind
Kevin Marois wrote:
Even when you do, it's floccinaucinihilipilification
Except in an old version of Funk & Wagnell's (sp?) dictionary I looked at many years ago where it is floccipaucinihilipilification. I find it is not very good as a word for 'hangman' - as soon as the player sees the length of it or guesses the vowel 'i', it is too obvious. It is also not very useful for Scrabble(R). So, once again, it is self-defining. Is there a word for words that are appropriate to their meaning (e.g. like 'dyslexia' which is hard for dyslexics to spell?) or a word for words that are inappropriate / opposite to their meaning (e.g. 'fat' which is a thin word) [Similar to onomatopoeia - which is a word to describe a word that sounds like what it describes]?
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