What is Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobics?

1.

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

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