Sunday, August 14, 2011

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (pronounced /su.per.cal.i.frag.i.lis.tic.ex.pi.al.i.do.cious) is an English word, with 34 letters, that was in the song with the same title in the 1964 Disney musical film Mary Poppins.

Mary Poppins is a 1964 musical film starring Julie Andrews


Root Meaning
A semi-serious analysis of each part of the word can produce the alternate definition, which roughly means - Atoning for educability through delicate beauty.

The roots of the word have been defined as follows:
super- "above"
cali- "beauty"
fragilistic- "delicate"
expiali- "to atone"
docious- "educable"

Other Usage
It can also be used as an exclamation, or as a way to describe something that surprises and delights you, similar to the words 'stupendous' or 'wonderful':
"What a supercalifragilisticexpialidocious delight!"

According to the movie, "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" is something to say when you have nothing to say (nonsense). The word is a neologism, meaning it was created (for the movie), but variations existed as early as 1949


According to Urban Dictionary, supercalifragilisticexpialidocious is an adjective;

1) fantastic, Fantastic, very wonderful
2) A word one can use to describe something when no other words will do

Dick- Well now how is that?
Mary- Why it's supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

And there you go guys! Hopefully that answer your question (quite a number of them were asking the mening of this 34-letter-word!) lol. watch this, and say SUPERCALIFRAGILISTICEXPIALIDOCIOUS!




4 comments:

  1. bagus la bagitahu maksud, x payah susah2 cari..hehe
    su.per.cal.i.frag.i.lis.tic.ex.pi.al.i.do.cious
    cube bos buat video sebut satu2..senang sikit anak buah nak ikut ;p

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  2. hahaaa...xp2, nnt buka sem bos buat tutorial mcm mn nak sebut tu k! :)

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  3. lepas tu ain sebut laju2! hahaaa...

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