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To: Kaslin

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/floccinaucinihilipilification

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Often cited as the longest non-technical word in the English language, being one letter longer than the commonly-cited antidisestablishmentarianism. In the debate on the remuneration of EU staff, Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg used the word floccinaucinhiliphication on 21st February 2012 making it the longest word ever used in the British House of Commons.


4 posted on 07/24/2013 10:55:59 AM PDT by Red Badger (Want to be surprised? Google your own name......Want to have fun? Google your friend's names........)
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To: Red Badger
Thanks for link. I LOVE this word, it's moving directly to the front of my vocabulary. Especially about Obama. Who has definitely floccinaucinhiliphicated the American people, the office of POTUS, and the Constitution.

He will go down in history as the Great Floccinaucinhiliphicator. (The Great Insignificant Trifling Nothing

Maybe without the Great.

"Latin flocci, from floccus, a wisp or piece of wool + nauci, from naucum, a trifle + nihili, from the Latin pronoun, nihil (“nothing”) + pili, from pilus, a hair, something insignificant (all therefore having the sense of "pettiness" or "nothing") + -fication."

15 posted on 07/24/2013 11:43:34 AM PDT by Veto! (Opinions freely expressed as advice)
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