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Polyblogging/Pollyblogging

Seein' as how I've heard that polibloggers get more comments, I thought I might try my hand at polyblogging pollyblogging. First I considered polyphrasticontranominegalondulation,

The overuse of long words.
Mentioned in The Age (Australian newspaper) Letters to the Editor section in the early 90's by someone looking for the longest word in the English language.
Also a short lived zine in Melbourne.
In Yes Minister, Humphrey uses polyphrasticontranominegalondulation to manipulate the activities of the Minister

but that would be too tedious for y'all to read. Then I tried to find an old advertisement from the '50's featuring Polly Parrot,

but gave up after a few minutes of searching returned no sign of the bird from my childhood memories.

Hoping that my feeble efforts will not be an embarrassment to this site's originator, who is by the way a polyprodigy, i.e.,

A person who is a prodigy several times over. The boy was perfect in everything he did. He was polyprodigious!

I considered whether I should limit my post to "poly" words or "polly" words. Having found "Poly Pages" to be a more prolific source, I perused the site for peculiarities worthy of publishing. Having taught math, I knew that polygons and polynomials would be far less interesting than the Polynesian islands, but that more hits might come of talking about polyamory.

That said, I think I will put the cover on my polyurethane keyboard and crawl under my polyester blanket.

Posted by Susan R at January 16, 2005 08:39 PM