SESQUIPEDALIA*

 * A VERY LONG WORD

BIG WORDS - JACKY CHILES

Did you know that Richard of RBB suffers from Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia?

It probably goes unnoticed given that he seems to have may phobias and fears - cows, heights, flying, Catholics, banjoes etc. but recent squabbles with Robert The Apathetic Sinner has exposed this.

Robert has become a bit sesquipedalian in his last few posts:

Sesquipedalian can also be used to describe someone or something that overuses big words, like a philosophy professor or a chemistry textbook. If someone gives a sesquipedalian speech, people often assume it was smart, even if they don't really know what it was about because they can't understand the words.

          Thanks Aunty GOOGLE 

Richard has reacted to this in a recent post see : BIG WORDS ARE NOT REALLY MY THING

And in a comment on one of Robert's posts:

Fair enough. At least it gives them one more thing to argue about if they ever run out of religious and musical issues.

Oh, by the way, hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is one of the longest words in the dictionary — and, in an ironic twist, is the name for a fear of long words. Sesquipedalophobia is another term for the phobia.

Aunty GOOGLE again