Saturday, 30 January 2010

Floccinaucinihilipilification (oh yes!)

Apparently the longest non-technical world in English.

I think it means....

"useless" or more precisely "valueless".

:-)

I wonder how it's pronounced?

10 comments:

Theresa Milstein said...

If it were French, it would be pronounced with so few letters that it would be hard to believe it was the same word.

I think this rivals supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, which means fantastic, very wonderful. Thanks, Mary Poppins.

Kea said...

OMG, that's a real word! I had to Google it. ROTFL! Now, who came up with that? Someone with too much time on his hands. I do write "his," because we all know no woman would have time to come up with something totally useless like that! ;-)

Old Kitty said...

Hi Theresa Milstein

Aw! Mary Poppins!

I think we'll need a spoonful of sugar to pronounce this supercalifragi wotsists word!

:-)

Take care
x

Old Kitty said...

Hi Kim

LOL!

Amen to that!

:-)

Take care

x

fairyhedgehog said...

An extraordinary word, but you can't beat defenestration in my view. Or troglodyte.

Old Kitty said...

hi fairyhedgehog

onamatopoeia!

:-)

The first time I heard the word "troglodyte" was when in Tunisia - we were on this tour and the tour guide said "we will now visit Mr & Mrs Troglodyte who live in actual caves". Of course the lovely couple who were so gracious to us stupid tourists didn't have that surname and their "caves" were really fab bunker type houses cut into mountains! The guide was just being very silly!

:-)

Take care
x

Take

Bernideen said...

Hi there - can to check out your blog- you can find the madeleine pans at William Sonoma if you have one of those!

Ann said...

Supercalfagalisticexbealadocious!
Well Mary Poppins said it was a word and I believe her.

Old Kitty said...

Hi Bernideen

I found a similar tray in my local hardware shop. It's sort of fan shaped rather than shell shaped but it'll do!

I can't wait to try your recipe.

Thanks!

x

Old Kitty said...

Hi Ann

Mary Poppins rules! She's definitely supercalifragifabulous!

:-)

Take care
x