On Words and Upwards! » Money http://www.onwordsandupwards.com Your Hapax legomenon is showing... Wed, 14 Oct 2009 07:09:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Quomodocunquizing http://www.onwordsandupwards.com/quomodocunquizing/ http://www.onwordsandupwards.com/quomodocunquizing/#comments Sat, 15 Aug 2009 18:15:35 +0000 onWords http://www.onwordsandupwards.com/?p=197 adj. That makes money in any possible way.

Those quomodocunquizing clusterfists and rapacious varlets.
The discovery of a most exquisite jewel, Sir Thomas Urquhart (1652)

There’s a ten dollar word, if ever I heard one. Take the next minute or two to practice pronouncing quomodocunquizing.

Good. Now that you’ve mastered that you’ve taken the next step necessary to become a smart-soundy-talker.

If this word were shorter (damn you modern people and your desire for short words) it might be all over the place in today’s news. There are plenty of people out there working odd jobs and even jobs to make some extra cash in this economy. If I were to shorten it for you hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobians it would probably be, um, cash-whore.

Are you and quomodocunquizer? How’s that working out for you?

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