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The song occurs in the chalk-drawing outing animated sequence, just after Mary Poppins wins a horse race.Flush with her victory, she is immediately surrounded by reporters who pepper her with questions and suggest that she is at a loss for words.
One is a whopping 45 letters long. Back in grade school, words like "onomatopoeia" and "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" seemed insanely complicated and long.
The attributed meaning is "a word that you say when you don't know what to say." The idea and invention of the word is credited to songwriters Robert and Richard Sherman . Agglutinative constructions
According to Wikipedia, in his book "Crazy English," Richard Lederer breaks down the meaning of the compound word which was a song and single from the 1964 Disney musical film "Mary Poppins."
ultra: from Latin, meaning beyond; micro and scopic: from ancient Greek, meaning small looking, referring to the fineness of particulates; silico-: from Latin, silicon; volcano: from Latin, referring to volcano; coni: from ancient Greek (κόνις, kónis) which means dust-osis: from ancient Greek, suffix to indicate a medical condition
"Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious", also known as "SimpsoncalifragilisticexpialaD'oh!cious" is the thirteenth episode of the eighth season of the American ...
According to Marrian-Webster, this word does not exist. Michael Flower 04:03, 2 October 2013 (UTC) Assuming you mean Merriam-Webster, this article is about the Sherman Brothers song, not the word. For that matter, Merriam Webster does not claim to be perfect - words can exist before they are catalogued.
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