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That's our Liam: the quintessential expatriate of colloquialisms!

One long word I liked a lot as a child was supercala... supercala....???

Of course, for sheer polysyllabocity (to create a new word), there's always the famed antidisestablishmentarianism, which at one point was the longest real word in the english language (not including technical terms like long chemical names and the like).

I believe I read somewhere that there's actually a longer one now...

Liam, my words are longer than yours.

Ah. I just used another word I quite like. Not as large a word as some others, perhaps, but...

Impugn. I really love that word.

Liam, who really cares?

Checking in at work, now... Showing signs of addiction...

When I went to DC I really stayed in VA. Tyson's Corners. Because I needed a car and there's no f...... place to park in the D of C. How do you live???

I'll be in Wader's WI in June, in Madison. And of course I frequently travel the 2 inches to Toronto. If you want to sit by the lake and watch the girls go by, you have to go to Canada because all the parks in Buffalo are closed due to budget crisis, due to government corruption and ineptitude, due to us voters voting for smiling faces rather than people who actually know what they are doing, due to us falling for slogans and sound bites, due to us actually having jobs that require us to work so we don't really have time to check out the candidates so we just voted for whomever we heard on the radio or saw on TV and remembered at the voting booth.

BuffaloAl wrote:Checking in at work, now... Showing signs of addiction...

When I went to DC I really stayed in VA. Tyson's Corners. Because I needed a car and there's no f...... place to park in the D of C. How do you live???

I'll be in Wader's WI in June, in Madison. And of course I frequently travel the 2 inches to Toronto. If you want to sit by the lake and watch the girls go by, you have to go to Canada because all the parks in Buffalo are closed due to budget crisis, due to government corruption and ineptitude, due to us voters voting for smiling faces rather than people who actually know what they are doing, due to us falling for slogans and sound bites, due to us actually having jobs that require us to work so we don't really have time to check out the candidates so we just voted for whomever we heard on the radio or saw on TV and remembered at the voting booth.

Aw, come on. ..... Tell us how you REALLY feel!
Gosh, what kind of work do you do? Must be great to travel. But must be frustrating too sometimes. Yes, DC is a parking nightmare. And while I don't typically use the colorful words you implied here, FYI -- there's a funny website on the "History of the ...... Word" ...... But you didn't hear it from me, got it?!

L, going incognito

The longest one I know I learned in science class, extra credit if you spelled it right pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. Which means some really small silica from volcanoes causes a lung disease with this name.

I learned sesquipedalian when our city had its sesquicentennial, which is 150 years, so sesquicentennial means one and a half centuries, and sesquipedalian means, more or less literally, a word and a half.

I always like words like impugn that aren't pronounced how they look, and words that look like they should rhyme but don't eg. Done, Gone, Bone.

-SWS wrote:That's our Liam: the quintessential expatriate of colloquialisms!

One long word I liked a lot as a child was supercala... supercala....???

Hey, I actually know those two long words!!!
Guess I'm not as dumb ....... .


Linda,
who is learning a lot of new words

impugn
SYLLABICATION: im·pugn
PRONUNCIATION: m-pyn
TRANSITIVE VERB: Inflected forms: im·pugned, im·pugn·ing, im·pugns
To attack as false or questionable; challenge in argument: impugn a political opponent's record.
ETYMOLOGY: Middle English impugnen, from Old French impugner, from Latin impugnre : in-, against; see in–2 + pugnre, to fight
[American Heritage Online Dictionary]

How about supercalifragilisticexpialidocious? I can even use it in a sentence. Oops... no need to, I just did two sentences prior to this one.

Here's a forum you will just love, Linda:
http://www.englishforums.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=61673

Oh 2 inches isn't so far, and Toronto is everything that Buffalo isn't: clean cosmopolitan, safe, expensive ( well you can't have eveything).

I'll bet Liam frequently travels 2 inches to Boston; Wader, 2 inches to Chicago; Linda 2 inches to either Philly or DC or Atlantic City, or Cape May (so many choices) Rested, hmm, I don't know where you're from but I'll bet it's 2 inches from someplace nice to go. Maybe you're from Cincinnati which is 2 inches from next week's Kentucky Derby.

BuffaloAl wrote:Oh 2 inches isn't so far, and Toronto is everything that Buffalo isn't: clean cosmopolitan, safe, expensive ( well you can't have eveything).

I'll bet Liam frequently travels 2 inches to Boston; Wader, 2 inches to Chicago; Linda 2 inches to either Philly or DC or Atlantic City, or Cape May (so many choices) Rested, hmm, I don't know where you're from but I'll bet it's 2 inches from someplace nice to go. Maybe you're from Cincinnati which is 2 inches from next week's Kentucky Derby.

Aren't we all 2 inches from someplace?
(some might say I'm 2 inches from nowhere)


Linda

SWS --

Thanks for that website link. It had a jokes section. Here's one from there:


Tom had this problem of getting up late in the morning and was always late for work. His boss was mad at him and threatened to fire him if he didn't do something about it. So Tom went to his doctor who gave him a pill and told him to take it before he went to bed.

Tom slept well and in fact beat the alarm in the morning. He had a leisurely breakfast and drove cheerfully to work. "Boss," he said, "The pill actually worked!"

"That's all fine" said the boss. "But where were you yesterday?"

Here's another joke from that website:

A young man was walking through a supermarket to pick a few things when he noticed an old lady following him around. Thinking nothing of it, he ignored her and continued on. Finally, he went to the checkout line, but she got in front of him.

"Pardon me," she said, "I'm sorry if my staring at you has made you feel uncomfortable. It's just that you look just like my son who just died recently."

"I'm very sorry," replied the young man, "Is there anything I can do for you?"

"Yes," she said. "As I'm leaving, can you say 'Goodbye mother'? It would make me feel much better."

"Sure," answered the young man. As the old woman was leaving, he called out, "Goodbye mother!"

As he stepped up to the checkout counter, he saw that his total was $127.50. "How can that be?" he asked, "I only purchased a few things!"

"Your mother said that you would pay for her," said the clerk.

From that website -- more "word" oriented. Enjoy.


Logical oxymorons
act naturally
advanced basic
almost exactly
alone together
authentically reproduced
butt head
canned fresh
center around
clearly misunderstood
click the Start button to shut down
constant change
decreased growth
definite maybe
disposable products with a lifetime guarantee
even odds
exact estimate
extinct life
former native
forward back
found missing/turned up missing
genuine imitation
good grief
government organization
holy war
living dead
liquid natural gas
little giant
long shorts
near miss
new classic
now, then...
old news
passive aggressive
peace force
plastic glasses
pretty ugly
rehearsed improvisation
resident alien
same difference
silent alarm
small crowd
soft rock
solo ensemble
specialize in everything
sweet sorrow
synthetic natural gas
taped live
terribly pleased
tight slacks
to infinity and beyond
whole half
working vacation

Great list

but how could they omit " Government Intelligence" or even " Large Shrimp"