The Most Horrible English Words

• Jacques
  March 24th, 2008 at 10:49 am

  Shouldn’t that be floccinaucinihilipilification, not floccinaucihihilipilification. Don’t you just hate spelling flames?

  Anyway, the pronunciation is easy: floxi-noxi-ny-hilli-pilli-fi-cayshun.

• Richard
  March 24th, 2008 at 12:11 pm

  Is this what passes for “neat” nowadays”? I’ve seen exactly the same list a hundred times in the past, under the guise of the most horrible words, the hardest to spell words, and the longest words.

  I’m sure you can do better than this. If you really try.

• fluff
  March 24th, 2008 at 12:41 pm

  most of those are not really single words if you ask me. I see no difficulty in combinig different words. I would give an example, but think that it would not be considered “neat”.

• Skipweasel
  March 24th, 2008 at 1:36 pm

  And it’s Mary Poppins, not Marry Poppins!

• knowitall
  March 24th, 2008 at 4:19 pm

  actually it’s floccipaucinihilipilification. i had to learn it at school.

• Justin
  March 24th, 2008 at 4:51 pm

  Richard since you are an expert on what is neat, why don’t you submit some websites to neatorama so that we can be entertained.

• English Learner :D
  March 26th, 2008 at 11:36 am

  Im learning english, so for me it´s really really difficult to pronounce…. Lol

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