Senin, 23 Agustus 2010

One of the longest words in the english language without the letter E is Floccinaucinihilipilification. It means the act of declaring something worthless.

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The word was derived from a grammar book that listed four different Latin words that all roughly meant "of little or no value" (floccus, pilus, nihil, and nauci). There were strung together with "-fication" into one word as a joke. Fittingly, we now have an unnecessarily long, pointless word that describes the act of deciding that something is totally and absolutely valueless. Think you can use it in a sentence? Its first recorded [...]