Klarinet Archive - Posting 000425.txt from 2002/09

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: "tooting your own horn"
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 18:28:07 -0400

At 01:59 PM 9/20/2002 -0600, Richard Bush wrote:
>Rejoice. I think you might be the first ever
>hperpolysyllabicsesquipedalianist I've run across.

According to "Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure, and Preposterous
Words" (by Josefa Heifetz Byrne) the correct term to refer to a very, very
long word is "hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian."

Bill Hausmann bhausmann1@-----.net
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Essexville, MI 48732 ICQ UIN 4862265

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!

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