It seems to be in my domain
To be scared on everything
Like pain
Frisbees
People with frizzy hair
That seem not to care
Made up words
Like zurd
jurd
And vurd
Or common names
Like sophia
Sophie
Sean
Or unique names like
Gurlda
Or hilered
Or weter
Or people that are super slender
Or people of the opposite gender
Or the centers that say we need chicken tenders
And fractures
Or really big words
Like Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
Or Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia
Or Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
And hidden chickens in the kitchen
And people who write poetry
Oh wait
Thats me
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
Background of the word: This 45-letter word was coined in 1935, by
the president of the National Puzzlers' League of the United States, Everett E. Smith, in a presentation about the ever-growing length of medical terms.
He coined it to show how ridiculously long medical terms had gained acceptance.
It was created by stringing together a series of Latin stems that,
taken together, could conceivably describe an inflammatory lung disease caused by the inhalation of fine silica dust, a real disease already known popularly as black lung and technically called pneumoconiosis or silicosis.
Source:: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
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Artificial long word said
to mean a lung disease caused
by inhaling very fine
ash, sand and quartz dust.
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“Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis “ the medical term for lung disease caused by quartz dust is more than an absolute necessity to add to pompous poetry, it’s a must
Strengths on the other hand is a word that has only nine letters with all but one being a consonant
So tsktsk me to show your disapproval of my pompous poetry rant
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