Random trivia of the day 3

CoffeeSipJune 22, 2026other

Diy you know? The fear of long words is called Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia?

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  • The 36-letter word was first used by the Roman poet Horace in the first century BCE to criticise those writers with an unreasonable penchant for long words. It was American poet Aimee Nezheukumatathil, possibly afraid of their own surname, who coined the term how we know it in 2000.

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  • Maybe we should keep the words as short as possible if there is somebody in the comunity with Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia :).

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