Re: What's the looooongest word in English? :-?

Evan Kirshenbaum wrote:
[...]
I at first suspected that "factitious" was a typo, but looking it up,
I see that they define it as

3. Got up, made up for a particular occasion or purpose; arising
from custom, habit, or design; not natural or spontaneous;
artificial, conventional.

It's a handy tool, not unknown, and not unabused, in British political
discourse. Don't introduce it over there, or Bush will
misunderetymolologize it: "Listen, when ah talk to muh fellow-Americans
on the recud, every word ah say, ah say is remonstrably factitious".

--
Mike.


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