Re: new word

Google also finds lots of links for both words...

mngong_at_yahoo.com (michael ngong) wrote:

>FLOCCINAUCINIHILIPILIFICATION
>slubberdegullion
>Surprisingly the online dictionary onelook.com actually
>gave a meaning to this collection of letters
>
>Michael Tubuo Ngong
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>"Howard J. Rogers" <hjr_at_dizwell.com> wrote in message news:<3f8a40e8$0$28120$afc38c87_at_news.optusnet.com.au>...
>> Daniel Morgan wrote:
>>
>> > Howard J. Rogers wrote:
>> >
>> >>Daniel Morgan wrote:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>>Howard J. Rogers wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>>Jim Kennedy wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>>>I must say that I had to look up slubberdegullion
>> >>>>>(http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-slu1.htm). I consider
>> >>>>>myself fairly erudite, but Howard certainly taught me a new word.
>> >>>>>Jim
>> >>>>>From: "Howard J. Rogers" <hjr_at_dizwell.com>
>> >>>>>Subject: Re: Update On Jitendra Patel & TUSC
>> >>>>>Date: Sunday, October 12, 2003 4:28 PM
>> >>>>><snip for brevity only>
>> >>>>>I have no doubt that they will respond very quickly and very
>> >>>>>emphatically to disassociate themselves from this slubberdegullion.
>> >>>>>Otherwise, thinking people might come to what I am sure is entirely the
>> >>>>>wrong opinion.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>Regards
>> >>>>>HJR
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>>Oh, Jim. Next you'll be accusing me of being sesquipedalian!
>> >>>>
>> >>>>(try floccinausinihilipilification as a true description of
>> >>>>Patel's/Wilson's contributions here. One of my favourites).
>> >>>>
>> >>>>Regards
>> >>>>HJR
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>Next time spell it correctly: FLOCCINAUCINIHILIPILIFICATION.
>> >>>
>> >>>Some people. ;-)
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >>Bloody Americans!!!!!!!! ;-)
>> >>
>> >>Extraordinary as it may seem to those of us this side of the Atlantic
>> >>(WEST), you are actually quite correct, and I hang my head in shame.
>> >>
>> >>It was only 1/28th incorrect, however. And from memory.
>> >>
>> >>Such mis-spellings are, however, flagitious, and were I not to accept the
>> >>correction, I would be a mere recusant.
>> >>
>> >>So much for mere Arts degrees, huh?
>> >>
>> >>But yeah, I gottit wrong meester (add glottal stops as necessary)
>> >>HJR
>> >>
>> >>
>> > Given that I'm in Seattle we are both West of the Atlantic. ;-)
>>
>>
>> Hoist with my own petard, p'dner!
>>
>>
>> >
>> > And for those of you thinking Howard knows more about the language
>> > (English) he speaks
>> > than the language he writes (SQL) ...
>> > http://phrontistery.50megs.com/ihlstart.html
>>
>> Those of you thinking that are spot on. I'm hopeless at SQL.
>>
>> Select 'regards' from dual;
>> HJR
Received on Mon Oct 13 2003 - 12:44:18 CDT