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prettygoodword ([personal profile] prettygoodword) wrote2019-03-11 07:56 am

suprapreantepenultimate

Theme week: really long words, such as:


suprapreantepenultimate (SOO-pra-pree-an-tee-pen-UL-ti-mayt) - adj., n., fifth from the end.


The next in the series ultimate, penultimate, antepenultimate, and preantepenultimate. Coined in 2013 by a Chicago-area journalist. This isn't the first attempt at coining a word for this, either -- in 1825, a grammarian suggested propreantepenultimate, but that didn't catch on either. Not really surprising, given how much easier it is to say "fifth from the end."

---L.

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