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RCorrigan

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Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliaophobia ....... am I afraid of hippos or ??????????

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Maybe you're afrad of too many 'a's??

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CC ........daliophobia :)

(I knew I was dyslexic when I went to a toga party dressed as a goat !!!!!)

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That's funny. :-D

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Is it supposed to be a riddle?

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I've seen that one some time ago. You are afraid of long words. (And if it's not for [b]CC[/b], I would have never noticed an error.) It's that artificially created word from some real and somewhat broken roots.
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Stella740pl Correct ..... I just think it's going to be hard work to recognise your own phobia if you have to write it out on forms !!!!!

(Dyslexia rules KO)

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Is that really a word? I mean is it used in medical and mental health journals when referring to that phobia? That's insane if it is, or maybe I got it cause that word looks mighty scary to me.

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>Is that really a word?
Yup. And the correct spelling I believe should be:
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.

Here is a reference:
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Is that really a word?

Well, it depends.

From what I saw so far, it's a hoax created some couple of year ago and then widely used by mass media of many kinds - not by real psychological and mental health magazines. It made to some dictionaries, too, but if you search Web for it, even with addition of words 'magazine' and 'psychology' or 'mental health', look what kind of sites you will find. Not very professional, for sure. Blogs, entertaining sites, language sites, humor, newspaper articles, etc.

See some of the most serious reference I found:





And this:

 
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Ok. I gave up and cheated. I think that the given definition can be used as proof that this word is not real.

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And if you look at Wiktionary's explanation of etymology of the original word in question (my first link), I guess you will think the same thing.
 
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Right. This root "hippopotomonstro-" is already stuffy enough.

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I contend that the people who invented it should have spelled it sesquipedalio not sesquippedalio.

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