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  1. Dawn says:

    Hello. There was another word by Eckhart that was mentioned in the movie, something about a person writing/ speaking strange words.. i have no idea how to spell it, it’d be nice if you could put it up too. Thanks! =)

  2. Tweedledee says:

    @Dawn, the other word was ’sesquipedalianist’. It means a person who loves to use long and unusual words.

  3. fracas says:

    Thanks for the heads up Tweedledee!

  4. esi says:

    actually ive been looking for that word too. ever since i saw this movie i became addicted to long and interesting words!!

  5. Sarah Egypt says:

    How did he find the word poppysmic so easily? The other two words were readily available in your average dictionary, but poppysmic isn’t even recognized as a real word in most dictionaries or spell-checkers.

    I think it’s rather disheartening. Here, I thought there was a whole world of cool words that included poppysmic, come to find, the movie pulled that onomatopoeia from an ancient (apparently French) etymology.

  6. Vigo says:

    Very simple, because it looked for the word in google and not in a dictionary. Sorry my English, I am not. ;D

  7. fracas says:

    Sarah – Vigo is right, I used google. There are all kinds of online word sites though, and the average bloke or bonnie isn’t probably spending time there, so yes, there is a whole world of cool words out there. Cheer up!

    Vigo – I understood you perfectly! Thanks.

  8. Nangamso says:

    I love your site so much as much as today was my first time logging on it. I find it interesting I’m a lover of words and new meanings that’s they have, its also helping me 2 improve my english! Thanks a lot for creating it!!

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