sesquipedalianism

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Sorry for the sesquipedalianism, and my apologies to those who suffer from hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia. heh heh heh .... love ya Rex, even with all yer far right winger warts that you grew during the Bush Years.

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  1. The condition of being sesquipedalian; the practice of using, or fondness for using, long words; also, a long word, or a style abounding in long words. Are not these masters of hyperpolysyllabic sesquipeda-lianism using proper language? F. Hall, Mod. Eng., p. 39.

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  • Sorry for the sesquipedalianism, and my apologies to those who suffer from hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia. heh heh heh .... love ya Rex, even with all yer far right winger warts that you grew during the Bush Years. —  The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
  • Then again, even the White Queen would have trouble believing that embracing a system of sesquipedalianism will make everything right with the world. —  [Help] Most Recent Posts
  • It is sufficient to say, that they came to him in every shape -- in all the variety of diction that the poor English language admits of -- in the schoolmaster's best copy-hand, and choicest sesquipedalianism of pedantry -- in the severer, but more Scriptural terms of the parish clerk -- in the engrossing hand and legal phrase of the attorney -- in the military form, evidently redolent of the shrewd old pensioner -- and in the classical style of the young priest: -- for each and all of the foregoing were enlisted in the cause of those who had petitions to send in "to the Colonel himself, God bless him!" —  The Poor Scholar Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three
 

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