Amuse-bouche:

Thief: “The best entry is through the glass door.”

*throws a brick and shatters the entire left side of the two-pane sliding glass door*

Thief, trying the handle of the right half of the sliding glass door: “Aw, rats! It’s locked.”

*steps inside through the open door frame on the left side to unlock the door on the right*

Thief: “There! Now I can get in.”

*steps outside and slides the right door open before reentering*

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Today’s Wonderful Word: “hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia.”

Definition: the fear of long words.

Hip. Hip hop. Hip hop anonymous. 

Sesquipedalophobia is the fear of long words. But if you add “hippopotomonstrose-” to the front of it, the word becomes better and, of course, longer, and, therefore, scarier.

Comma comma comma and extra commas… I’m afraid I have failed to warn those with a fear of long words and / or commas before today’s reading.

How cruel, whoever invented the word for the fear of long words. I’m afraid “hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia” is such an awfully long word.

Spell check hasn’t identified today’s Wonderful Word as an actual word.

But they say if you read it on the internet, it must be true. I read that on the internet, so I’m afraid it must be true.

Here’s an alternate spelling: hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.

I’m afraid it includes one extra “p” just to make it THAT MUCH longer. 

Ca ne veut rien dire.

If you’re afraid of long words, I’m afraid you won’t want to hear about “antidisestablishmentarianism.” Nor will you want to hear of “supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” or its distant cousin “pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.”

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Answer to Saturday’s riddle:

“Here” and “There.”