BIG WORDS

What BIG words do you favor and or enjoy using.

Coded orthagonal frequency division modulation.

Huge, Large, Gigantic,............

LifeNRA said:

Huge, Large, Gigantic,............

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Good one, Jeff! :laughing:

I have this one memorized and know how to spell it, its officially (at least I think) the longest word in the English language. There are longer words, like some chemical words can be in the several hundreds.


Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

Its really not that hard once you look at it closely.

PhotonWrangler said:

Good one, Jeff! :laughing:

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I do what I can with what I have. Which means I don't have much and do very little. :lolsign:

Wow, that's a doozie. Pneumonia caused by microscopic silica particles from a volcano?

anthropomorphization
To ascribe human characteristics to things not human.


its a good way to explain to others who never diced onions why you would cry when your cutting it....


Something i thought was funny
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fear of long words..... :lolsign:
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2000xlt said:

What BIG words do you favor and or enjoy using.

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Please
Thank you
M'am
Sir
Good (morning, afternoon, night, day...)

supercalifragalisticsexpialadocious?

Throwing out things like "superfluous" in casual conversation can be kinda fun.

"Some of the things on this lunch menu seem kind of superfluous, don't you think?"

:rock:

arugula

Its not a big word, but I use wont a lot for some reason.

skalomax said:

supercalifragalisticsexpialadocious?

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Ahem... I believe it's spelled "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious"

One of my favorite words as well - always brings a smile to my face.

mchlwise said:

Throwing out things like "superfluous" in casual conversation can be kinda fun.

"Some of the things on this lunch menu seem kind of superfluous, don't you think?"

:rock:

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try expedite
expedite!

I often tell my wife that I eschew obsfuscation.

greenLED said:

Ahem... I believe it's spelled "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious"

One of my favorite words as well - always brings a smile to my face.

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Yep, I think so too. I was too lazy to look up the correct way to spell it. Thanks.

Illum_the_nation said:

try expedite
expedite!

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I'll have to use that forthwith.

snourth weast when I'm giving directions

From Wikipedia:

"The word antidisestablishmentarianism, with 28 letters, is the longest accepted word in the English language"