I found this when looking up some stuff on Wikipedia...
The word which means "A Fear of Long Words" is...
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia
How cruel is that??? Making the word which means "Fear of Long Words" a mere 36 letters long! :p
at least if you were asking someone if they had it, by the time you finished saying the word you would have your answer 
My old Latin teacher claims that he created that word. God I miss him.
What I don't understand about it is...
Why do the first 5 letters spell Hippo? As in Hippos? Probably has something to do with size.
*shrug*
The finder of this word should be congratulated 
I cannot pronunciate it. Sorry to tell you this...but the word Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is not a real word - in wikipedia it is also under "Jocular and fictional phobias" - ergo its just something for fun..
...As can also be seen by its starting with Hippopotomo 
I prefer:
| Quote: |
| Anatidaephobia — fear that somewhere, somehow, a duck is watching you |
Well a word for a phobia is just a Greek (IIRC) word that just means "fear of X". So arachnaphobia is Greek for "fear of spiders".
OTOH, I find it unlikely that hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is a real Greek word... Hippo is a greek root meaning "horse" IIRC...
who's cruel idea was it to put an S in the word lisp?
| frymaster8 wrote: |
| who's cruel idea was it to put an S in the word lisp? |
I think lisp is an onomatopoeic word (a word that sounds like the sound it describes)...meaning that lisp is meant to sound like someone lisping...but yea...thats actually really evil 
..also how about dyslexic/dyslexia? (i can hardly spell that word)
