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The Sherman Brothers, who wrote the Mary Poppins song, have given several conflicting explanations for the word's origin, in one instance claiming to have coined it themselves, based on their memories of having created double-talk words as children. [8] In another instance, they wrote: Cash Box Top 100 Singles". May 15, 1965. Archived from the original on May 10, 2015 . Retrieved September 10, 2017. Artwork must be confirmed before your item can go into production. Artwork is produced by our team Mon-Fri 9-5One pun on the word jokes that Mahatma Gandhi was a "super calloused fragile mystic hexed by halitosis". [23] Some consonants can take the function of the vowel in unstressed syllables. Where necessary, a syllabic marker diacritic is used, hence /ˈpɛd(ə)l/ but /ˈpɛdl̩i/. Vowels Whitburn, Joel (1994). Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-1990. Record Research. ISBN 978-0-89820-089-8. In 2021, a cover was sung by Hololive's virtual idols Momosuzu Nene and Pavolia Reine, with the latter singing the word during the rap part. [27]

In 2016, Randy Rainbow created a parody video of the song, in which he called (then-candidate) Donald Trump "super callous fragile egocentric braggadocious", "super careless fragile ego extra braggadocious", "super sleazy fabricating sexist and obnoxious", "superficial chauvinistic arrogant and thoughtless", and "super calculated adolescent braggadocious". [24]With only 34 letters in it, it is beaten by the word: “Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis” Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" was released as a single, achieving a measure of commercial success on the U.S. music charts. It peaked at number 66 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. It did much better on the Adult Contemporary chart, reaching number 14. [15] Chart (1965) People also began to use a shortened adjective form, supercalifragilistic, as well as the adverbial supercalifragilistically. These forms don't appear often, but when they do, they mean something along the lines of "wonderful" or "amazing," Because Mary Poppins was a period piece set in 1910, songs that sounded similar to songs of the period were wanted. [2] The movie version finished at #36 in AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs survey of top tunes in American cinema. In 2018, Girona manager Pablo Machín was asked to describe his club, using only one word. He responded "Ok, I'll use the longest word I know: supercalifragilisticoespialidoso". [26]

is the longest word in the Oxford English dictionary, apparently. At 45 characters long it's ten characters longer than supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! But there's another word that appears in many English dictionaries that's even longer. Though it's Welsh rather than English, the town Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch beats both of those at 58 characters! It means: "Saint Mary's Church in the hollow of the white hazel near the rapid whirlpool of Llandysilio of the red cave". In fact, the earliest known written record of a variant is for supercaliflawjalisticexpialidoshus from an "A-muse-ings" column by Helen Herman in The Syracuse Daily Orange (Syracuse University), March 10, 1931. The columnist muses about her made-up word, describing it as including "all words in the category of something wonderful" and "though rather long and tiring before one reaches its conclusion, ... once you arrive at the end, you have said in one word what it would ordinarily take four paragraphs to explain." Dictionary.com meanwhile says it is "used as a nonsense word by children to express approval or to represent the longest word in English." [10] The word contains 34 letters and 14 syllables. a b Whitburn, Joel (1993). Joel Whitburn's Top Adult Contemporary 1961–1993. Record Research. p.17.For a real good time, just tell your parents to take you to any one of the supercalifragilistically spectacular places listed below. English yachtsman Rodney Pattisson won three Olympic medals in sailing during the Games of 1968 (gold), 1972 (gold) and 1976 (silver) in a Flying Dutchman called Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious written in large colorful waves on the hull.