Hippopotomonstrosesquipedalianism

topic posted Mon, September 3, 2007 - 9:16 AM by  offlinePeter
A self-referential version of sesquipedalian? Just another "stunt word" I suspect. To read a bit more go to:
blog.oup.com/2007/08/long_words/
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