Floccinaucinihilipilification:
(Flock-sin-ow-sin-hill-ih-pilla-fah-kay-shun)
Remember, there's no I in team. But there are plenty in floccinaucinihilipilification to make up for it. 9 letters out of the 29-letter word are I's.
If you ever wanted your word to become a mainstream, often-used word, make it short. Obviously whoever coined this word had absolutely no knowledge of this law that I just stated.
So, what's floccinaucinihilipilification mean anyway? Well, it's just a very fancy (or is it annoying?) way to say "worthless." Actually, sometimes you'd think floccinaucinihilipilification would be easier to say that getting your point across when you want to say worth less. Too bad the poor soul who invented this weird word couldn't have made it a bit shorter.
So did some moron on a mountaintop just invent this new crazy word? Like most words in the English language, it came from Latin. It literally means "I do not make a straw of..." Now what does that have to do with worthlessness? Well, back in the day, straw was pretty cheap. So, if you don't make a straw of something, you wouldn't make a straw's worth of money off something that's floccinaucinihilipilification.
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