Believe it or not I'm writing a story for the local paper and this came up. I don't know how to spell it, so I can't do a search. Does anyone know for sure?
2006-09-04 06:20:10 · 12 answers · asked by DH 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
I believe it's 'super cali fragilistic expiala docious'.
EDIT: Had to break it up into pieces to make the last letters show. So just ignore the spaces. Stupid Yahoo Answers program. -_-
2006-09-04 06:21:42 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
try eliminating the 'super' or 'supra' which is just a prefix & osis which is just a suffix, then go to dictionary.com.
Failing that, so a search for musical song titles. There is a book at amazon so maybe in a local big bookseller store: The American Musical Film Song Encyclopedia (Hardcover)
Some towns have call-in research librarians that can help.
well, OK, it's a song, so here's what I find on amazon.com:
Supercalifragilistic - (from "Mary Poppins")
I'd say that's a big clue, I'll leave it to you from here!!
2006-09-04 06:40:47 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
U r probably not going to find a definitive answer here. I would search something like IMDB, looking for references to words in scripts or song lyrics. Such a word becomes a matter of opinion as to what is correct. This equals endless argument. Spell check probably won't provide any value either! Good luck.
2006-09-04 06:32:22 · answer #3 · answered by jrr_hill 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
2006-09-04 06:27:13 · answer #4 · answered by the_relaxed1 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
2006-09-04 06:23:52 · answer #5 · answered by Steve R 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
"Super cali fragilistic expiali docious" is the 34-lettered song title from the 1964 Walt Disney film Mary Poppins. As a song title, it is a proper noun, but the word, and variations, has entered the English language as an adjective and an adverb. It is one of the longest words in the English language. According to the Sherman Brothers, the word was created by them when they were boys at summer camp.
The song describes using the word as a miraculous way to talk oneself out of difficult situations, and even as a way to change one's life. The song appears in the film's animated sequence where Mary Poppins is harangued by reporters after winning a horse race and responds to one claiming there are not words to describe her feelings of the moment. Mary disagrees with that and begins the song about one word she can use.
The word itself has obscure origins, pertaining as to when it was first used, but the roots are fairly clear, as Richard Lederer wrote in his book Crazy English: super- "above," cali- "beauty," fragilistic- "delicate," expiali- "to atone," and docious- "educable," the sum meaning roughly "Atoning for extreme and delicate beauty while still being highly educable." This is the perfect word for Mary Poppins to use, being that she thinks of herself as incredibly beautiful but also extremely intelligent, which makes up for it.
Hows that?
Grrrr... required to break up the word for yahoo answers to display all letters, it's one word really, but made up of smaller words, I broke it out into the smaller words.
2006-09-04 06:28:38 · answer #6 · answered by hrh_gracee 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Supacalifragilisticexpialidocious
2006-09-04 07:02:44 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
Right from:
2006-09-04 06:26:01 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi. Supercalifragilistic expialidocious. (Without the space.) From http://www.fpx.de/fp/Disney/Lyrics/MaryPoppins.html
2006-09-04 06:27:12 · answer #9 · answered by Cirric 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Supercalifragilisticexpialidoc ious
(all one word)
2006-09-04 06:24:20 · answer #10 · answered by SkiGirl04 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋