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Subject: Your brother's wife's mother was a miner?

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Archie

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Date Posted: 16:06:02 01/14/05 Fri
In reply to: Ed Harris (London) 's message, "Toll din Curnoak" on 00:58:35 01/08/05 Sat

" "My next-door neighbour's dog has stolen the lemon-meringue which I would have given to my brother's wife's mother for her ninetieth birthday had she not been diagnosed with pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcaniconioisis"

Perhaps if you can translate meringue and pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcaniconioisis first.

Presumably this mother was a miner, because they're the ones to get that disease.

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Author: Roberdin [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 16:09:14 01/14/05 Fri Pneumonoultramicroscopicsailicovolcaniconioisis is in fact an entirely fictious disorder. ;-) [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

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Author: Ed Harris (London) [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 01:06:09 01/15/05 Sat ... it's a very cool name for a disease, fictitious or not. Rather like 'distemper' and 'melancholia'. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

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Author: Roberdin [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 20:13:23 01/15/05 Sat Not as good as 'Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia' - meaning 'fear of long words' [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

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Ed Harris (London)
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Date Posted: 00:41:43 01/16/05 Sun

I knew that "sesquippedalophobia" meant an irrational fear of long words, but your version sounds like an irrational fear of long words and river horses, from the Greek constituent parts.

Mind you, I am a great fan of 'phobia' words. If you're ever in the Science Museum in Kensington, there's a whole section of them somewhere, and some of them are fantastic. Agyrophobia (fear of streets or crossing the street) and cherophobia (fear of gaiety) are two of my favourites. Soceraphobia (fear of in-laws) is also fun.

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