WEIRD WORDS

It was floccipaucinihilipilification, but he forgot to tell me what it means. I guess it has something to do with flossing to prevent tooth decay. Just kidding!

In Shakepeare’s works the longest word is honorificabilitudinitatibus. Can you imagine an actor having to deliver a romantic or dramatic speech with that word somewhere in the middle? There probably would be a shower of saliva clear back to the 20th row.

One of the lesser known Greeks at Troy was a guy named Stentor. According to Homer, his voice was, “as loud as that of fifty men.” So when a politician bellows, people say he has a “stentorian voice.” I say he’s a “loud mouth wind bag.”