May 2009
8 posts
hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia
Yep, that’s a new word i learned tonight. I say new word, as it’s both new to me and evidently young etymologically.
Denotation:
hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia (uncountable)
The fear of long words, ironically. It is literally the hippopotamus- and monster-related fear of very long words. Ben is a sufferer of a mild form of hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia
Etymology
From...
2 tags
1 tag
So…the wife asked me about twitter. She’s up to speed on facebook and the like, but wasn’t quite sure what the tweet buzz was all about.
It was then that we decided to take a quick survey of douche-tastic names on twitter… here’s our top 5:
baggey_o_douche / Douchey McBag
mcdouchey / Douchey McDouchebag
douchebagelow / douche bagelow
ivanadouche / Ivana...
“We’ll soon find out whether an organism the size of the United States can...”
– Jim Kunstler
“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long...”
– Carl Sagan