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I used to suffer from hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia, I detested multisyllabic words. Whenever I heard one, paramnesia kicked in.
However that changed when I fell for a muliebrious sesquipedalian girl called Aubrielliana, they do say antitheticals attract. She spoke and I smiled, nodded or shook my head hoping it was the appropriate rejoinder.
Everything changed when I made a serendipitous discovery in a book shop, a Longword Lexicon. Suddenly we were able to communicate efficaciouslty!
However, this morning she used the word defenestration and to my horror it wasn’t in my lexicon. I was so angry I chucked it out the window.
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Thanks to Sammi Cox for hosting the Weekend Writing Prompt.
In case it’s not in your dictionary either, it means – the action of throwing something or someone out of a window!
*As I was writing this, my mind went back to my childhood days. My grandfather would read to me and whenever he came across a lengthy word he would just say ‘longword’ instead ond carry on!
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Can we put this on a teleprompter and watch our fearless leader try to read it! hehehehehehe
Now that would be funny!
Unfortunately, I do know the definition, not that it is useful. Cute story, but the best part is the info on Grandpa. Love it!
You did and I didn’t! Grandpa would certainly have replaced it!
Thank you for the longword story, Keith. I learned a few new words!
So did I thanks to Google! Cheers, Suzette.
Excellent story Keith. It’s safe to say that I haven’t heard most of these words. 😅
Thank you Sadje. Nor me, and I doubt I’ll ever used them again!
I like you grandfather’s way of dealing with things! 😅😅
Thanks so much. That was typical of him!
This may be the first time I’ve seen the word defenestration used without reference to Czech history.
Thanks for dropping by.
The word certaimly goes back a long way, as I discovered when I researched it.