Have you read (or said) any or many rare,uncommon,antiquated or unusual words?

Xenodochiophobia.

NY Times article of 1989, uses ,describes and gives the history of : Xenodochiophobia
supposedly the A fear of foreign hotels

Berenson was Caspar Milquetoast as a traveling companion. He devised the term xenodochiophobia to characterize his own misgivings as a tourist. He defined it in his memoir ‘‘Rumour and Reflection’’ in this way:

‘‘I invented it long ago to designate the sinking feeling that in my travels often overcame me: of fear lest the inn or hotel at which we were to lodge would be sordid, would not let me have the promised apartment; .......

Xylophonexenodichochiopobia = fear of playing a wrong note on your piano accordian whilst entertaining the entire motel.

So if Bob Dylan had preferred the piano accordian to the harmonica, would “Xyl on Main Street’ have been even bigger ?

Xyl on Main street!  I like that!!!,,

but wasn’t that a stones albumn?

and would:

chochiopobia be a fear of chochiity old men?

I think you mean crotchety old men, which gave rise to the Americanism “feeling a bit ‘techy”. 

Chochiophobia is possibly a fear of something a bit more crutchety, depending on the pronunciation - otherwise a fear of coca-based derivatives.

Wrankled administrators would probably admit to “feeling a bit techie” from time to time.

Well, here it is, 4th May, I’m obviously baiting the adminstrators with the wrong fish !

Biblioxenodochiophobigraphy: the art of knowing where else you might find it

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. At first, I thought, it was a trick given to us by our professor. It’s really a word. A lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust, causing inflammation in the lungs. Before the doctor finished stating the word, you got a heart attack already.

Pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism (pseudoPHP) is an inherited disorder, named for its similarity to pseudohypoparathyroidism in presentation. It is the longest non-coined word in a major dictionary, Oxford English Dictionary , which contains 30 letters.

Hello I Cagalli signing in!

Moreover I just wanna share this wonderful word it’s the!.....

““Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious””

we use this word if we don’t know what’s the next thing that’ll say!

It’s awesome right? 

Welcome to the group Cagalli!!! That’s an interesting word, I think.

Hello Virgo! Nice to meet you!!!!!!!! 

The topic is so catchy that’s why I am really captivated when I saw this thread!

It’s my pleasure to be in the group! 

Additional information about supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. This is an adjective and it is use as a nonsense word meaning fantastic; also called supercalifragilistic. It has been popularized by the movie ‘Mary Poppins’.

Honorificabilitudinitatibus is the longest word in Shakespeare’s works.

Oh Virgo are those words came from wikipedia? hmmmm…