Brits say “Go to hospital” and Americans insist that “go to THE hospital” is correct. But both say “go to school” and not “go to THE school.”
I had a good weekend, did a small concrete job, it’s not done because got an invitation and so I went diving.
I forgot to glue one of the PVC joints for an air conditioner drain. Wondering if it’s going to leak.
The internet seems slow, perhaps it’s just this computer
My divng video I’m uploading for this post is taking a very long time to upload, so it’s probably the internet and not this computer.
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words.
I was planning on riding the scooter to work but now I don’t feel like it.
I’m not going to ba able to post my video today, maybe tomorrow.
Hope you have a good day and week.
You can still put some sealer around the joint for an AC drain. It should hold more than enough.
And then… “Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia — fear of long words. Hippopoto- “big” due to its allusion to the Greek-derived word hippopotamus (though this is derived as hippo- “horse” compounded with potam-os “river”, so originally meaning “river horse”; according to the Oxford English, “hippopotamine” has been construed as large since 1847, so this coinage is reasonable); -monstr- is from Latin words meaning “monstrous”, -o- is a noun-compounding vowel; -sesquipedali- comes from “sesquipedalian” meaning a long word (literally “a foot and a half long” in Latin), -o- is a noun-compounding vowel, and -phobia means “fear”.
This is about as close as anyone will get to finding out where this word came from.”
The joint in question is under concrete already.
You dissected the word pretty good.