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Big-Word-A-Phobia
"Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia"
So the other day I'm bored and can't remember a word that means, all frills removed and translated in small vocabulary, bigwordaphobia. So I type it in. No result. I type in big-word-a-phobia, same thing but more grammatically correct, right? No result. So I type this up and now I'm running a search of 'phobias'. I think the word starts off with 'hippo'. The reason I want to find this word is so that I can work it into my vocab. Also, it's a really long/big word.
So far I haven't found it. The phrontistery.info is no help, but has
some interesting phobias.
From tesarta.com Sesquipedalophobia --fear of long words
From http://psychology.about.com Long Words (look under 'words') Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia (or the above word).
Who comes up with
these names? Imagine if you had Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia and looked it up.
Here's an
imaginary conversation:
"I'm afraid of lots of things, like corpses, fog, horses, and (lowers voice to
whisper) big words"
(Interested) "Really? What's it called?"
(obviously frightened) "Hip-Hip-Hi" (sobs)
(Confused) "um, is there another name for it?"
(Recovers)"Yes. It's Sesqui-Sesq-" (angry with themselves)
"Never mind..."