Are we tired of long words yet?

It’s August. Does anyone have any idea how that happened?

Just wanted to drop a quick post today with a few more interesting long words:

 

Unimaginatively has a lot of vowels—eight in total, if you count the final y. Which of course you SHOULD. Seeing as it’s being used as a vowel.

The cool thing about this word is that its vowels and consonants alternate.

But it’s not the longest word of that kind.

That would be honorificabilitudinitatibus, of course. A twenty-seven-letter way of saying “with honorableness.”

Which none of us will ever use.

 

And I have two final words for you in our sesquipedalian journey into the land of long words. (Sesquipedalian, if you forgot, is the satisfyingly long word meaning the tendency to use long words.)

 

Isograms are words that do not repeat any letters. Two beautifully long examples are:

Uncopyrightable, coming in at 15 letters and

Subdermatoglyphic, which is a wee bit longer (17 letters), but obviously less useful in day-to-day chat. It has to do with the whorls, arches, and ridges of your fingertips, though, which is cool.

 

And that wraps up our Long Words study. I can honestly say that not a single one of these words has made it into my daily life, but I’ve had fun.