Is hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia a wind up?

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7 posts & 6 voices | Started 1 year ago by Surrounded By Zulus | Latest reply from Spin

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Surrounded By Zulus - Member

Phobia of long words apparently. Cant be a genuine name for a phobia of such things though can it?

Posted 1 year ago #
Spin - Member

Yes it's a coined word. Like Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

Posted 1 year ago #
jota180 - Member

Sounds like a 'benefits' ailment to me

Posted 1 year ago #
dan1980 - Member

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia

Posted 1 year ago #
rossi46 - Member

Sounds like a 'benefits' ailment to me

Posted 1 year ago #
CaptainFlashheart - Member

Have you hear that they've taken the word gullible out of the latest OED?

Posted 1 year ago #
Spin - Member

Have you hear that they've taken the word gullible out of the latest OED?

I hadn't heard that but I do know that if you look up "Bumhole" in the dictionary there is a picture of you.

Posted 1 year ago #

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