Brobdingrag is the correct spelling of Brobdingnag as originally intended by a fictional Lemuel Gulliver in the manuscript so published.
In Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, Gulliver wrote a letter following the fictional initial publication that is used as a preface in the version actually published under Swift. Though the letter deals mostly with Gulliver's frustration at the behavior of humanity as that of Yahoos, he also makes a brief aside:
In Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, Gulliver wrote a letter following the fictional initial publication that is used as a preface in the version actually published under Swift. Though the letter deals mostly with Gulliver's frustration at the behavior of humanity as that of Yahoos, he also makes a brief aside:
Indeed I must confess, that as to the people of Lilliput, Brobdingrag (for so the word should have been spelt, and not erroneously Brobdingnag), and Laputa, I have never yet heard of any Yahoo so presumptuous as to dispute their being, or the facts I have related concerning them; because the truth immediately strikes every reader with conviction.
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Gargantuan
Massive
Colossal
Really fucking big
Originalted from the tale Gulliver's Travels, from the town Brobdingnag, where everything was really fucking big.
Gargantuan
Massive
Colossal
Really fucking big
Originalted from the tale Gulliver's Travels, from the town Brobdingnag, where everything was really fucking big.
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(brob-dig-nag'-ee-un) adj. (often capitalized)
of colossal proportions or extraordinary height; gigantic. n. a giant. From Brobdignag, a country of giants, in the book Gulliver's Travels.
(brob-dig-nag'-ee-un) adj. (often capitalized)
of colossal proportions or extraordinary height; gigantic. n. a giant. From Brobdignag, a country of giants, in the book Gulliver's Travels.
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