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TEd says: "Soup of cauliflower delicious. The eggs were all atrocious."
Oooohhhh. That was painful! But it hurts so good!
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ladymoon has the French version, I thinkHi Hyla. I was about to suggest we ask our favourite (only??) resident francophone, belMarduk. But then I thought I'd conduct my own extensive research on this most important issue. So I tried "Supercallifragilisticexpialidocious" as search criteria to good ol' Google. And look what turned up as first hit (sorry, premier coup): http://perso.wanadoo.fr/thl/I'm just bouchefrappé!   Fisque P.S. Nice quote on the page from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Translates - rustily - as: The essence of life is invisible to the eyes.
One can only see clearly with the heart.
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So I must not have gotten in trouble enough at school. I didn't write it enough to have it engraved in my memory. Further evidence I really was an angelic child, I'll have to pass it along to my mother.
And now I'll pass the buck, I just copied it off bikermom's post.
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Carpal Tunnel
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I would put this word on my list of words that inflict excruciating pain, but in the interests of logology (and orthography) herewith a paste from the OED:
Made popular by the Walt Disney film ‘Mary Poppins’ in 1964. The song containing the word was the subject of a copyright infringement suit brought in 1965 against the makers of the film by Life Music Co. and two song-writers: cf. quots. 1949, 1951. In view of earlier oral uses of the word sworn to in affidavits and dissimilarity between the songs the judge ruled against the plaintiffs.
1949 Parker & Young (unpublished song-title) Supercalafajalistickespialadojus. 1951 I (song-title) Supercalafajalistickespeealadojus; or, The super song. 1964 R. M. & R. B. Sherman (song-title) Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! 1967 Decisions U.S. Courts involving Copyright 1965–66 488 The complaint alleges copyright infringement of plaintiff's song ‘Supercalafajalistickespeealadojus’ by defendants' song ‘Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious’. (All variants of this tongue twister will hereinafter be referred to collectively as ‘the word’.)
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SUPERCALAISFRAGILISTICEXPALADOSIUS!!!! Wow, what terrible memories from such a exciting and spirited word.  enthusiast
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