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Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobics

Person with fear of very long words.
Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliaphobics
Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobics might want to stay away from Friday's presentation of the 2008 Scripps National Spelling Bee, which starts at 8 P.M. on ABC.
-From the San Francisco Chronicle, May 25, 2008. Ironic note: The Chronicle misspelled the word with ...quippe... Spelling spelling corrected in example
by Gary Lindsay May 26, 2008
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