The word is a compound word, and said by Richard Lederer in his book Crazy English to be made up of these words: super- "above", cali- "beauty", fragilistic- "delicate", expiali- "to atone", and -docious "educable", with all of these parts combined meaning "Atoning for being educable through delicate beauty." [3] One pun on the word jokes that Mahatma Gandhi was a "super calloused fragile mystic hexed by halitosis". [23] Appearing in the Oxford English Dictionary, this 45-letter word for a disease is the longest English word that is defined in a major dictionary. It’s a technical word referring to the lung disease more commonly known as silicosis. Despite being in the dictionary, the word was originally made up by the president of the National Puzzlers’ League. The symbol ˈ at the beginning of a syllable indicates that that syllable is pronounced with primary stress. is the longest word in the Oxford English dictionary, apparently. At 45 characters long it's ten characters longer than supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! But there's another word that appears in many English dictionaries that's even longer. Though it's Welsh rather than English, the town Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch beats both of those at 58 characters! It means: "Saint Mary's Church in the hollow of the white hazel near the rapid whirlpool of Llandysilio of the red cave".

Sherman, Robert B.; Sherman, Richard M. (1998). Walt's Time: From Before to Beyond (1sted.). Santa Clarita, CA: Camphor Tree. ISBN 978-0964605930. Some consonants can take the function of the vowel in unstressed syllables. Where necessary, a syllabic marker diacritic is used, hence /ˈpɛtl/ but /ˈpɛtl̩i/. Vowels Sadly, despite it's meaning, you won't find people using it in casual conversation. (Unless they're singing the song) a b "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious: What does it mean?". BBC News. 7 March 2012 . Retrieved 7 March 2012.In fact, the earliest known written record of a variant is for supercaliflawjalisticexpialidoshus from an "A-muse-ings" column by Helen Herman in The Syracuse Daily Orange (Syracuse University), March 10, 1931. The columnist muses about her made-up word, describing it as including "all words in the category of something wonderful" and "though rather long and tiring before one reaches its conclusion, ... once you arrive at the end, you have said in one word what it would ordinarily take four paragraphs to explain." Dictionary.com meanwhile says it is "used as a nonsense word by children to express approval or to represent the longest word in English." [10] The word contains 34 letters and 14 syllables.

He crammed a generous chunk of the mix in his mouth and blew a bubble. The bubble rose, rose higher. It was a big beautiful bubble, … a supercalifragilisticexpialidocious bubble. The word supercalifragilisticexpialidocious in Mary Poppins is said to be simply a word used as "something to say when you have nothing to say," but the mouthful of nonsensical syllables certainly has brought cheer to audiences for decades. That cheer has inspired people to use it, like Helen Herman used her word, for things that are extraordinarily good or wonderful.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. Mary disagrees, saying that at least one word is appropriate for the situation, and begins the song. Richard M. Sherman (November 2, 2007). "LAist Interview: Richard M. Sherman". LAist (Interview). Interviewed by Brad Herman. Archived from the original on 14 December 2013 . Retrieved 4 March 2016. DJ Jazzy Jeff and Will Smith performed a rap-based cover of the song in Disneyland's 35th Anniversary Celebration.

Gross, Terry (17 July 2019). "Satirist Randy Rainbow Uses Show Tunes And Pop Songs To Lampoon Trump". JO1が福岡で新曲「SuperCali」初披露、地元凱旋の川尻蓮は「JAMは0を1にする力がある」と涙". Natalie. 23 September 2022. Archived from the original on 27 September 2022 . Retrieved 27 September 2022. The writers of the Oxford English Dictionary think that the word "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" was first used in the 1940s. The word is a compound word, and said by Richard Lederer in his book Crazy English to be made up of these words: super- "above", cali- "beauty", fragilistic- "delicate", expiali- "to atone", and -docious "educable", with all of these parts combined meaning "Atoning for educability through delicate beauty."Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" is a song from the film Mary Poppins, written by the Sherman Brothers. It was sung by Mary Poppins and Bert. It also appears in the musical version. It was also ranked #36 on the list AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs, [1] along with " Hakuna Matata" (#99), " Someday My Prince Will Come" (#19), " When You Wish Upon a Star" (#7), "Wind Beneath My Wings" (#44), " Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah" (#47), " Beauty and the Beast" (#62), and " The Rainbow Connection" (#74). It is one of only seven songs from Disney that made the cut. In 2016, Randy Rainbow created a parody video of the song, in which he called (then-candidate) Donald Trump "super callous fragile egocentric braggadocious", "super careless fragile ego extra braggadocious", "super sleazy fabricating sexist and obnoxious", "superficial chauvinistic arrogant and thoughtless", and "super calculated adolescent braggadocious". [24]