2006-09-02 05:16:24 · 11 answers · asked by Little Miss Helellena 3 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
Because the person who first used it had a sense of humour. Logically it could have been much shorter, but that really wouldn't have been funny, would it?
2006-09-02 10:49:27 · answer #1 · answered by Oracle Of Delphi 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanocon... skill a lung ailment led to via the inhalation of very high-quality silica dirt, inflicting inflammation interior the lungs. I have no bloody thought as to why they make the words so damn long. If i grew to become into the guy springing up with this observe, i might shorten it right down to Pascosiliosis lol. there's no evaluate having long words using fact human beings will in no way use them. for people who do, they only desire to brag that they could say it. in spite of the shown fact that, it would not teach that they have a extreme mind. i assume it is why acronyms have been invented.
2016-10-01 05:24:46 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is also no other word for thesaurus (a dictionary of other words meaning the same thing).
a pallindrome is a word that can be read forewards and the same backwards, yet pallindrome cant be read backwards.
A female friend of mine, has a fear of dwarfs. Other people actually have a fear of clowns. Both appear at carnivals, and i dont sit well with calling a dwarf a freak, but this bearded lady, dwarf, clown, carny thing....which actually is sinister, whats that called...i reckon its a common one?
2006-09-02 09:32:39 · answer #3 · answered by ben b 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably because the person coming up with the word did not happen to be afraid of long words. I think it's fun to say.
2006-09-03 15:48:41 · answer #4 · answered by Jen A 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hippopoto- is claimed to mean "big" due to its allusion to the Greek-derived word hippopotamus (though this is derived as hippo- "horse" compounded with potam-os "river", so originally meaning "river horse"); -monstr- is from Latin words meaning "monstrous", -o- is a pseudo-Greek noun-compounding vowel; -sesquipedali- comes from "sesquipedalian" meaning a long word (literally "a foot and a half long" in Latin), -o- is a pseudo-Greek noun-compounding vowel, and -phobia means "fear".
2006-09-02 05:39:04 · answer #5 · answered by redunicorn 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
For the same reason that dyslexia is really hard to spell...
the world is a cruel and unfathomable place!
2006-09-02 05:26:51 · answer #6 · answered by No_More_Drama 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably it is the fear of someone will ask you to spell it.
2006-09-02 05:28:02 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
To torture further those who fear long words. Ah me!
2006-09-02 09:27:36 · answer #8 · answered by pat z 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because it is long itself
2006-09-02 05:38:47 · answer #9 · answered by Rahul T 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i dnt like big words but y would ppl b scared of it?
2006-09-02 07:31:51 · answer #10 · answered by sugarpie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋