Translate

Monday, 12 September 2016

Word of the day

Supercalifragilisticexpialidiocious

  • One of the longest words in English

  • super- "above", cali- "beauty", fragilistic- "delicate", expiali- "to atone", and docious- "educable" roughly = "Atoning for educability through delicate beauty."

  • Commonly defined as "extraordinarily good" or "wonderful"

No comments:

Post a Comment

Featured post

The Patterns We Create — And the Distance We Don’t Notice

  I’ve been thinking about something very simple… yet very powerful. We humans are pattern seekers . Not sometimes—almost always. In the way...