Directed graph showing the descent of the English word "extracurricular" from Proto-Indo-Euorpean *h₁eǵʰ-: "out", *-teros: derives contrastive adjectives, *ḱers-: "to run", *tlom derives instrumental nouns, and possibly h₂el-: "to grow, to nourish"
Apparently today is #BigWordDay
The longest English word in my dataset (with no spaces or hyphens) is "extracurricular"
(All yours, big guy.)
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It's National Big Word Day today! Makes us think of all the technology that our friends at Fulcrum Acoustic put into loudspeaker design and manufacturing.
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April 21: What’s a fancy word you use to sound smarter? (Mine’s ‘defenestration’.)
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Hey, it’s #BigWordDay! Surprisingly, few of our etymological videos centre on big words, but we’ve done a couple of shorts about some bigger words, like Kenspeckle and Bedizened:
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It's Big Word Day! What are some of Tiffany Achings' favourite Big Words?
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