What is Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobics?


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Person with fear of very long words.

Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliaphobics

Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobics might want to stay away from Friday's presentation of the 2008 Scripps National Spelling Bee, which starts at 8 P.M. on ABC.

-From the San Francisco Chronicle, May 25, 2008. Ironic note: The Chronicle misspelled the word with ...quippe... Spelling spelling corrected in example

See pedantic, neologism


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