Monday, April 29, 2013

The Longest Word I Know...

It's Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.. YUP!! What it means ( This meaning is what I only know.. I think it's correct:) ): The roots of the word have been defined as follows: super: above, cali: beauty, fragilistic: delicate, expiali: to atone and docious: educable. Although the word contains reconizable English morphemes, it does not follow the rules of English morphology as a whole. The morpheme is a suffix in English, where as the morpheme ex is typically a prefix, so following normal English morphological rules, it would represent two words: supercalifragilistic and expialidocoius. The pronunciation also leans towards it being two words since the letter c does not usally sound like a k when followed by and e.

It's also like a tongue twister if u say it fast.. Try it!!

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