August 14th, 2006
Categorized under: English and Editing

Floccinaucinihilipilification

This strange, almost unreadable word is not as long as pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (which is the longest word in the dictionary), but it comes as a close second. I’ve been given it by Anu Garg, who is the provider of A Word A Day, an email service anyone can subscribe to, still free of charge after many, many years. Anu is a lover of words, and wants to share that love. At this time, there are over 600,000 subscribers to her daily word send off. The words range from the simple to the obscure, and usually have a weekly theme.

Floccinaucinihilipilification, by the way, means “estimating something as worthless”. There is irony, here.

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I was born in Montreal, Quebec (that’s in Canada, folks) but was raised in a small Quebec Laurentians town called Mont-Laurier. I didn’t stay there long, though, and studied and lived in Montreal, Ottawa and Halifax, where I obtained my Masters Degree in Psychology from Saint Mary’s University.Throughout the years, I’ve been a housekeeper, ...