{"id":56999,"date":"2015-08-06T00:09:38","date_gmt":"2015-08-06T07:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/?p=56999"},"modified":"2015-08-06T00:09:38","modified_gmt":"2015-08-06T07:09:38","slug":"floccinaucinihilipilification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/56999","title":{"rendered":"Floccinaucinihilipilification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tMove over, Mary Poppins, there&#8217;s a new tongue twister in town.<\/p>\n<p>Sing this one out loud, sisters:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_57000\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-57000\" class=\"wp-image-57000\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Jean-Etienne_Liotard_07.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"355\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-57000\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jean-\u00c9tienne Liotard, Young Girl Singing into a Mirror, 1700s<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Floccinaucinihilipilification!<\/p>\n<p>(Need a spoonful of sugar?)<\/p>\n<p>Unlike <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious\"><u>supercalifragilisticexpialidocious<\/u><\/a>, floccinaucinihilipilification is a real (read: definitively definable) word. Saying it, however, is a challenge best broken into syllables.<\/p>\n<p>Take a big breath and say it with me:<\/p>\n<p>Flok<\/p>\n<p>Suh<\/p>\n<p>Naw<\/p>\n<p>Suh<\/p>\n<p>Nahy<\/p>\n<p>Hil<\/p>\n<p>Uh<\/p>\n<p>Pil<\/p>\n<p>Uh<\/p>\n<p>Fi<\/p>\n<p>KAY<\/p>\n<p>Shuhn<\/p>\n<p>Whew!<\/p>\n<p>This rarely uttered Latin-based noun refers to an inherent lack of value. Something like, &#8220;The painting was forged by a copycat artist, so it was dismissed by the <em>Antiques Roadshow<\/em> as a floccinaucinihilipilification.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But, the term&#8217;s primary claim to fame is its length\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/56760\">another one <\/a>of the longest words in the English language.<\/p>\n<p>Feeling pretty good about your pronunciation of floccinaucinihilipilification?<\/p>\n<p>Try putting it to music.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tRFHXMQP-QU\" width=\"500\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Move over, Mary Poppins, there&#8217;s a new tongue twister in town. Sing this one out loud, sisters: Floccinaucinihilipilification! (Need a spoonful of sugar?) Unlike supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, floccinaucinihilipilification is a real (read: definitively definable) word. Saying it, however, is a challenge best &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/56999\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/56999\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gleaming_word"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}