FANCY WORDS you think everyone should know.

http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/pedant

You can apply it to grammatical scrutiny, but it encompasses much more.

It amazes me too--but now I am just being pedantic.

 

enunciate

As in - "I thought she woulda been full after eatin that whole pizza, enunciate another!"

Larry the Cable Guy

 

I actually had to look up a word today from F-Chat.

puerile- childish.

And my pet peeve is "irregardless"

 

How about misspellanalphobia. thats when someone who just ranted an entire page in F-chat, and the only retort was "your an idiot because you had typos."

And yes, I'm aware of the mistakes, its supposed to be ironic.

 

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
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Acquiescence

 

POW
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zorch - a person who sniffs farts

 

mirkin

 

That's a hill in New Zealand. In Maori! Bzzt! Back to English...

Methionylglutaminylarginyltyrosylglutamylserylleucylphenyl-
alanylalanylglutaminylleucyllysylglutamylarginyllysyglutamyl-
gycylalanylphenylalanylvalylprolylphenylalanylvalylthreonyl-
leucylglycylaspartylprolylglycyllisoleucylglutamylglutaminyl-
serylleucyllysylisoleucylaspartylthreonylleucylisoleucyl-
glutamylalanylglycylalanylaspartylalanylleucylglutamylleucyl-
glycylisoleucylprolylphenylalanylserylaspartylprolylleucyl-
alanylaspartylglycylprolylthreonylisoleucylglutaminylasparaginyl-
alanylthreonylleucylarginylalanylphenylalanylalanylalanyl-
glycylvalylthreonylprolylalanylglutaminylcysteinylphenylalanyl-
glutamylmethionylleucylalanylleucylisoleucylarginylglutaminyl-
lysylhistidylprolylthreonylisoleucylprolylisoleucylglycylleucyl-
leucylmethionyltyrosylalanylasparaginylleucylvalylphenylalanyl-
asparaginyllysylglycylisoleucylaspartylglutamylphenylalanyl-
tyrosylalanylglutaminylcysteinylglutamyllysylvalylglycylvalyl-
aspartylsrylvalylleucylvalylalanylaspartylvalylprolylvalyl-
glutaminylglutamylserylalanylprolylphenylalanylarginylglutaminyl-
alanylalanylleucylarginylhistidylasparaginylvalylalanyl-
prolylisoleucylphenylalanylisoleucylcysteinylprolylprolylaspartyl-
alanylaspartylaspartylaspartylleucylleucylarginylglutaminyl-
isoleucylalanylseryltyrosylglycylarginylglycyltyrosylthreonyl-
tyrosylleucylleucylserylarginylalanylglycylvalylthreonylglycyl-
alanylglutamylasparaginylarginylalanylalanylleucylleucyllysyl-
glutamyltyrosylasparaginylalanylalanylprolylprolylleucylglutaminyl-
glycylphenylalanylglysylisoleucylserylalanylprolylaspartylglutaminyl-
valyllysylalanylalanylisoleucylaspartylalanylglycylalanylalanyl-
glycylalanylisoleucylserylglycylserylalanylisoleucylvalyllysylisoleucyl-
isoleucylglutamylglutaminylhistidylasparaginylisoleucylglutamyl-
prolylglutamyllysylmethionylleucylalanylalanylleucyllysylvalylphenyl-
alanylvalylglutaminylprolylmethionyllysylalanylalanylthreonylarginy-
lserine

 

Relevant to nothing, but do any of you know the longest word that can be typed by the left hand using standard finger positioning on a QWERTY keyboard?

 

And your right hand isn't on the keyboard because????

Anyway, big fan of:

factotum
cloaca

-R

 

I do now, after using both hands to query Google.

 

like this Wes?

verbose /adjective, characterized by the use of many or too many words; wordy:

 

Damn. My fish doesnt even come close.

Humuhumunukunukuapua'a
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one of my personal favorites:

Sphygmomanometer: A.K.A. a blood-pressure cuff.

Also ylshih - I applaud you on the most unwieldy molecule name I've ever seen. I feel very, very sorry for whoever had to NMR that thing. My favorite organic molecule: ethane.

 

Time for dictionary.com, you languorous gomeral!

-R

 

me getted ownd buy a fancee spellir

 

Mahatma Gandhi, as you know, walked barefoot most of the time, which
produced an impressive set of callouses on his feet. He also ate very little,
which made him rather frail and with his odd diet, he suffered from bad
breath. This made him...

A super calloused fragile mystic hexed by halitosis.

 

"Smiles"

(There's a mile between the first & last letter.)

 

Antithesis

Languor

 

LLANFAIRPWLLGWYNGYLLGOGERYCHWYRNDROBWLLLLANTYSILIOGOGOGOCH

A town in North Wales. The name roughly translates as: St. Mary's Church in the hollow of the white hazel near to the rapid whirlpool of Llantysilio of the red cave. It is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records.

 

Sesquipedalianism, which is ironic considering the thread at hand.

Obsequious.

Insipid.

Segacious.

Egregious.

 

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliaphobia...! Aha...! Take that, Yin and you others...! I didn't have to look it up or copy and paste - I'm just naturally a dork...!

...um, wait...


Ok, for real words, I think everyone should know what an aglet is and I think everyone should know what onanism is and I think everyone should know what unctuous means... I can't think of any others at the moment, but obsequious was a good one ('oblique' is another favorite word that starts with an 'o' and has a 'q' in it)...

This is a great thread...!