What is a fear of long words

What is the fear of long words

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‘Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia’ is the fear of long words

What Symptoms Does The Fear Of Long Words Cause?

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breath to become short and breathe frequently irregularity in your heartbeat panic attacks the sufferer feel nervous This can also cause them to become unable to utter the simplist of sentences

Why is the fear of long words called hippopotomonstrosesquippedal…?

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its only appropriate that the phobia be a long word otherwise it’d just be funny. Nobody with that phobia will show up to a function in they’re neame with that name printed in the banners.

Related Questions Answered on Y!Answers

Why doe they call the fear of long words such a long word?

Q: I mean come on! Someone with a fear of long words is not gonna want to say hippoptomonstrosesquippedaliophopia!

A: You got it wrong.It is Wortesangsteweltsschmertzandemstrasselichtenhaben!

Why is the name of the phobia for the fear of long words Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia?

Q: and why is the person who thought of that so cruel..i mean it’s like this:Bob: so hey dude, i heard you had a phobi.Paul: yep.Bob: the fear of long words?Paul: yep.Bob: so what’s it called?Paul:..uh …hipp..ahhhhhhh make it stop ahhhhh – starts to shake- hippopoto…ahhhhhhhBob: walks away casually, never to make contact with Paul againHippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the full name for real

A: Hippopoto- is claimed to mean “big” due to its allusion to the Greek-derived word hippopotamus (though this is derived as hippo- “horse” compounded with potamos “river”, so originally meaning “river horse”). -monstr- is from Latin words meaning “monstrous”. -o- is a Greek noun-compounding vowel (whose presence might seem anomalous between two Latin elements, except that neologisms, including respectable ones from ISV, do sometimes mix Greek and Latin roots). -sesquippedali- is a misspelt and mistaken form taken from “sesquipedalian” (meaning a long word, literally “a foot and a half long” in Latin). -o- is a Greek noun-compounding vowel (whose presence is highly anomalous after another vowel here).

The Fear of Long Words — How do you pronounce this?

Q: The fear of Long words is: HippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobiaYes this is a real word….now how do you pronounce this long word? Does anyone else see the irony in this existing english word?

A: check out the website below…it has an audio link that ‘pronounces’ it for you.