OT: Proposed Word of the Week

[dsampson55]

I was reading the NYT obit on William F Buckley and ran across this discription of him:

sesquipedalian - characterized by the use of long words

Thought it might make a good word of the week

dave

[dsampson55]

In the next paragraph, they have:

pleonastic - use of more words than necessary


dave

[vivmarsh]

So presumably he was pleonastically sesquipedalian (not to mention tautological)... ?

[sosmus]

You guys talk funny!
My favorite crossword puzzle answer was in a National Observer Newspaper, long defunct now.
The clue was "hoarder of notes."
The answered was
"hemidemisemiquaversaver." How's that for a long word?

sos