EFF co-founder John Gilmore removed from org's Board

Re:EFF co-founder John Gilmore removed from org's Board by OnlineGladiator on Monday October 25, 2021 @05:13PM (#28993205)

> antepenultimate

And I thought knowing what penultimate meant was fun. For those that don't know, penultimate means second to last and antepenultimate means third to last.

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Re:EFF co-founder John Gilmore removed from org's Board by FabHK on Monday October 25, 2021 @05:18PM (#28993264)

(There's also "preantepenultimate" if you ever want to say fourth to last without saying fourth to last...)

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/preantepenultimate

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Re:EFF co-founder John Gilmore removed from org's Board by OnlineGladiator on Monday October 25, 2021 @05:33PM (#28993416)

Now I'm curious if there's a word meaning 'having more syllables than the definition itself' because we crossed that barrier back at antepenultimate (and penultimate already is tied with 'second to last').

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Re:EFF co-founder John Gilmore removed from org's Board by chrismorgan on Monday October 25, 2021 @06:45PM (#28994098)

Well, there’s sesquipedalia for long words. You can also try hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hippopotomonstrosesquipedalio....

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Re:EFF co-founder John Gilmore removed from org's Board by teawrecks on Monday October 25, 2021 @05:41PM (#28993495)

And apparently propreantepenultimate. Love this lol

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Re:EFF co-founder John Gilmore removed from org's Board by mgdlbp on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @02:03AM (#28996931)

This aversion to repetition has also engendered such words as quasihemidemisemiquaver—half half half half eighth note.

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