Floccinaucinihilipilification -"the act of describing something as worthless, or making something to be worthless"
yes..its a word.. first time i heard this word is in talk show Qi at BBC. The woman tried to guess what word did Thomas Edison created. she said Floccinaucinihilipilification. which is wrong. Thomas Edison was created other word that we use almost every day. HELLO. simple isnt it?
I dont want to talk about HELLO (maybe later). Today I want to talk about Floccinaucinihilipilification. 29 letters and it is one of the longest non-technical word in Oxford dictionary.
how to spell it?? mudah saje..
bunyi ye..
Flokinokinihilipilificashen. tu sebutan melayu ye la.. ehehehhe...
From wikipedia.. this word made from 4 short words:
* flocci facere (from floccus, -i a wisp or piece of wool)
* nauci facere (from naucum, -i a trifle)
* nihili facere (from nihil, -i nothing; something valueless (lit. "not even a thread" from ni+hilum))
* pili facere (from pilus, -i a hair; a bit or a whit; something small and insignificant)
all of these 4 words show something that worthless, small and valueless..
I guess we can start to practice using this word from now on.
kalau Karam Singh Walia plak:
Ibarat kambing gurun menanduk gunung, gunung tak runtuh, tanduk yg pantah.
okie...but the longest word in dictionary is
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
45 letters..something related to medic description. so i assume it is in technical word group kot.
but my choice for today still
Floccinaucinihilipilification
