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this word was made up by my father many years ago and used to tease his sister-in-law who was heavily into the latin scientific names for the flora and fauna around her home at the time in the Indiana dunes. the word is ALSCALSISABALSAMACAHANNA and was used by my family to describe almost any old thing that we desired.
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Welcome aboard, spelchkr - are you related to our own, dear Ænigma, I wonder?
My mother (who knew the first names, surnames, nicknames and father and mother's names of nearly all flowers!) when faced with a plant whos ename she either didn't know or had forgotten, would dub it "robustum spreadwelliam[/]" - mostly applied to garden wild flowers, which she would insist were "weeds"
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 This made up word has the "Sound of Music's made up word beat. How many people remember the word us middle agers used to decribe fantastic events as teenage girls? SUPERCALAISFRAGILISTICEXPALADOSIUS!!!!
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This made up word has the "Sound of Music's made up word beat
Right actress, wrong movie. That was Mary Poppins.
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 Thanks taking the iniative to correct me. That is what this site is for. Plus that is how we all learn. Do you even remember that word being used ever? As for the movie--I saw both at the movie theater---ions ago. And all my life I have always been in the right place at the wrong time-------guess somethings never change.
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popped in on a visit to London, too late for a regular meal at the inn where she usually stayed. The innkeeper sent to her room several boiled eggs and a bowl of cheddar cauliflower soup. The next morning she wrote in the guest book: "Soup of cauliflower delicious. The eggs were all atrocious."
And with that post TEd reaches another milestone. Hukd on fonix.
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SUPERCALAISFRAGILISTICEXPALADOSIUS!!!!
I remember that word being used, often. My third grade teacher made us write it over and over as punishment. He'd also make us copy pages out of the dictionary. Then I'd get in more trouble for reading the dictionary instead of just mechanically copying it.
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Congratulations, Ted--I think! Yer hukt, al rite.
I'd get in more trouble for reading the dictionary instead of just mechanically copying it. Well,
ladymoon, it's too bad that teacher didn't allow that learning opportunity. But I know they have to stick to the curriculum, dag nab it.
And, um, I believe it's
SUPERCALIFRAGILISTICEXPIALIDOCIOUS.
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SUPERCALAISFRAGILISTICEXPALADOSIUS!!!!
ladymoon has the French version, I think.
And enigma thinks it's "supercomputer" (which it ain't - weird spell-checker)
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My Grandfather's version of Eenie, meenie, minie, moe (sp?sp?sp?sp?), which I believe was not unique to him, went:
Eenie, meenie,
Tipsy, teenie,
Apple Jack and
Domnic Sweeney
Amanochie,
Domanochie,
Al-a-man tish!
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