When I was in college the word antidisestablishmentarianism was being touted around as being a very long word that showed just how smart you were. Pulling out my handy-dandy dictionary I attempted looking up the word but couldn't find it. I did find antidisesablishment and establishmentarism— so I took their combined meanings and proceeded adding prefixes and suffixes to the word to show off. Fortunately/unfortunately I lost my type-written paper so I had to start over. I now realize that the word did exist (just not in my dictionary) and proceeded to build up the word again. I never realized that what I was doing was building an entomology of the word until I looked up the word recently to get my baseline of the definition. Here is what I came up with:
- antidisestablishmentarianism
- The movement or ideology of advocates opposed to the separation of a religious group and a government.
- pro- + antidisestablishmentarianism
- Being for the movement or ideology of advocates opposed to the separation of a religious group and a government.
- neo- + proantidisestablishmentarianism
- Recently being for the movement or ideology of advocates opposed to the separation of a religious group and a government.
- pre- + neoproantidisestablishmentarianism
- Just before recently being for the movement or ideology of advocates opposed to the separation of a religious group and a government.
- semi- + preneoproantidisestablishmentarianism
- The moment somewhat just before recently being for the movement or ideology of advocates opposed to the separation of a religious group and a government.
- quasi- + semipreneoproantidisestablishmentarianism
- Something that partly resembles the moment somewhat just before recently being for the movement or ideology of advocates opposed to the separation of a religious group and a government.
- multi- + quasisemipreneoproantidisestablishmentarianism
- Multiple instances of that something that partly resembles the moment somewhat just before recently being for the movement or ideology of advocates opposed to the separation of a religious group and a government.
- anthro- + multiquasisemipreneoproantidisestablishmentarianism
- The human quality to have multiple instances of that something that partly resembles the moment somewhat just before recently being for the movement or ideology of advocates opposed to the separation of a religious group and a government.
- anthromultiquasisemipreneoproantidisestablishmentarianism + -ology
- The study of the human quality to have multiple instances of that something that partly resembles the moment somewhat just before recently being for the movement or ideology of advocates opposed to the separation of a religious group and a government.
- anthromultiquasisemipreneoproantidisestablishmentarianismology + -sosis
- The disease relating to the study of the human quality to have multiple instances of that something that partly resembles the moment somewhat just before recently being for the movement or ideology of advocates opposed to the separation of a religious group and a government.
- anthromultiquasisemipreneoproantidisestablishmentarianismologysosis + -ystic
- The symptoms of the disease relating to the study of the human quality to have multiple instances of that something that partly resembles the moment somewhat just before recently being for the movement or ideology of advocates opposed to the separation of a religious group and a government.
So…
anthromultiquasisemipreneoproantidisestablishmentarianismologysosisysticly speaking… it's all a bunch of bull.
16 comments:
i'm glad i didn't read this last night after my two margaritas... i might have thrown up!
Thank you for my new spelling list for the week...my son will love it....(evil laugh....)
I feel like I just took a big fat bong hit. Wow I feel lost...you are too funny. did you do this sobber? LOL
This would have been WAY to much to read last night with my migraine! I was with ya today in understanding, but my eyes did cross at some points and I had to consciously uncross them to continue reading!
Where do you come up some of these wacky ideas!?
Wow, and I thought I was a word nerd.
Ok.. are they real words???
I take it they aren't... but I love them anyway...
I scoff at large words. I'm glad you do too!
Wow---I've never put that much effort into figuring out big words like that. Although I am a fan of words that start with 'p' like pedantic and pretentious. They're just so fun to say:)
Holy Crow!!! Imagine spelling the last word on Scrabble...can't imagine how many points that will get???? Probably like a gazillion...you can probably win the game in one fell swoop.
You did NOT just type that word that many times. Did you?
ha ha ha ha Long words bore me too! YAWN! But YOU don't bore me.
Wow.
I'm impressed.
And thanks for following me in my hour of need! :o)
Haha!! Being the geeky girl that I am, I find this post particularly hilarious! Maybe you didn't mean to be funny, but you got me laughing this morning!
Fantastic! I will be sure to work each form of this word into conversation by weeks end. Likely only with my boyfriend who tolerates and joins in on my silly and nerdy moments. We often try to teasingly one-up each other with super long mix of real and fake words. Bizarre, I know...
How are your wrists feeling after that post? I was in tears reading this last night. I'm glad you thought to post this as a blog.
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