You know, you can say it backwards, which is: Dociousaliexpisticfracticalirupus, But that's going to be too far. He traveled all around the world And everywhere he went He'd use his word and all would say "There goes a clever gent" When dukes and maharajas pass the Time of day with me I say me special word and then They ask me out to tea.
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! Even though the sound of it Is something quite atrocious If you say it loud enough You'll always sound precocious Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! Um diddle diddle diddle um diddle ay Um diddle diddle diddle um diddle ay!īecause I was afraid to speak when I was just a lad Me father gave me nose a tweak And told me I was bad But then one day I learned a word That saved me achin' nose The biggest word you ever heard And this is how it goes: Oh! He responded "Ok, I'll use the longest word I know: supercalifragilisticoespialidoso".It's. In 2018, Girona manager Pablo Machín was asked to describe his club, using only one word. The Guardian rated it as number 5 in six of the greatest football headlines. The result, one of the biggest ever upsets in Scottish football, led to the famous newspaper headline "Super Caley go ballistic, Celtic are atrocious" by The Sun. In February 2000, Inverness Caledonian Thistle defeated Glasgow's Celtic FC 3-1 in the third round of the Scottish Cup football competition. Japanese rock band Boøwy included a song called "SUPER-CALIFRAGILISTIC-EXPIA RI-DOCIOUS" that was written by their guitarist Tomoyasu Hotei on their 1986 number one album Beat Emotion. In it, columnist Herman muses about her made-up word.Įnglish yachtsman Rodney Pattison won three Olympic medals in sailing during the Games of 1968 (gold), 1972 (gold) and 1976 (silver) in a Flying Dutchman called Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious written in large colorful waves on the hull. The first known appearance of the root or similar word (Supercaliflawjalisticexpialidoshus) is from an "A-Muse-ings" column by Helen Herman in The Syracuse Daily Orange (Syracuse University), March 10, 1931. The Disney publishers won the lawsuit partially because affidavits were produced showing that "variants of the word were known . In addition, "Supercalafajalistickespeealadojus" was recorded on Gloro Records (45) by The Arabian Knights. Also known as "The Super Song", "Supercalafajalistickespeealadojus" was recorded by Alan Holmes and his New Tones on Columbia Records, vocal by Hal Marquess and the Holmes Men, music and lyrics by Patricia Smith (a Gloria Parker pen name). The plaintiffs alleged that it was a copyright infringement of a 1951 song of their own called "Supercalafajalistickespeealadojus". In 1965, the song was the subject of an unsuccessful lawsuit by songwriters Gloria Parker and Barney Young against Wonderland Music, who published the version of the song from the Walt Disney film. 'the only word to characterize Kepler's discoveries was 'Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious'' 'a supercalifragilistic day of fun' 'The ineffable Noëlle is supercalifragilisticexpialidocious' "Supercalifragilistic" is an abbreviation of "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious," originating in 1966, two years after the word "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" was popularized in 1964.ĪDJECTIVE informal Extraordinarily good wonderful. One pun on the word jokes that Mahatma Gandhi was a "super calloused fragile mystic hexed by halitosis". Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious was added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 1986. In a 2007 interview, Sherman said that the word's final version emerged over two weeks while they wrote the song.
Sherman, who cowrote the song with his brother Robert, speaking in an episode of the Disney Family Album that told the story of the brothers' careers. "We remembered this wonderful word from our childhood," said Richard M. The song's writers said the word originated from their memories of creating double-talk as children. also notes that the word is "used as a nonsense word by children to express approval or to represent the longest word in English." However, it is commonly defined as "extraordinarily good" or "wonderful" as all references to the word in the film can be perceived as positive. The roots of the word have been defined as follows: super- "above", cali- "beauty", fragilistic- "delicate", expiali- "to atone", and -docious "educable", with the sum of these parts signifying roughly "Atoning for educability through delicate beauty." According to the film, in which the word gained its popularity, it is defined as "something to say when you have nothing to say". The Oxford English Dictionary estimates that the word "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" was first attested in the 1940s.
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