Monty by Jim Meddick for January 18, 2024

I’ll wait for someone else to look it up.

James Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake?

♪♫ If you say it loud enough you’ll always sound obnoxious… ♪♫

Antidisestablish_ish_ish……whatever.

antidisestablishmentarianism

I’s a very bumpy road for Monty, and probably filled with potholes, too. Don’t break a reading-axle, Monty!

honorificabilitudinitatibus: The state of being able to achieve honors.

It’s used/spoken by Costard in Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost.

https://en.wikipedia.Org/wiki/Honorificabilitudinitatibus

Use in Love’s Labour’s LostThe word is spoken by the comic rustic Costard in Act V, Scene 1 of the play. It is used after an absurdly pretentious dialogue between the pedantic schoolmaster Holofernes and his friend Sir Nathaniel. The two pedants converse in a mixture of Latin and florid English. When Moth, a witty young servant, enters, Costard says of the pedants:

O, they have lived long on the alms-basket of words, I marvel thy master hath not eaten thee for a word; for thou art not so long by the head as honorificabilitudinitatibus: thou art easier swallowed than a flap-dragon.

There you go Ratkin.

A graduate of the Evelyn Woodhead sped reding course. His comprenchon has increased 100 per cent

If you enjoy rabbit holes, looking up honorificabilitudinitatibus will lead one further into the murky depths of literary analysis through hapax legomenon, Zipf’s law, & other statistical fun that I likely dozed through in college years ago.

It’s a fine word for the sesquipedalians among us. It’s also the longest word in the English language with alternating consonants and vowels.

Floccinaucinihilipilification or pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis?

Educational comments, all – read the funny pages and learn something!

What kinda bus?

This is why I say it’s just H when people ask my middle name.

Every so often, Monty gets a long, hard one.

There was a parody of “Jonathan Livingston Seagull” called “Baron von Wolfgang Vulture”. He was a speed reading bird who was knocked unconscious when he hit a colon in the text at close to the mach neural limit of comprehension. :)

Would somebody get Monty some crayons, already? :)

Read it in Kindle and all you have to do is highlight and select “Look Up”

IIRC, the longest place name in the English language belongs to some village in Wales. I once saw a photo of the name on a sign on the town’s train station, but there’s no way I was gonna try to commit it to memory.

Well, at least Finnegans Wake gave us the “quark”.