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Meaning

It's an adjective, really. I realize that as a song title you can think of it as a noun... Doops 10:01, 25 Apr 2004 (UTC)

I'm curious, what does it mean as an adjective? I know that in the song, Mary Poppins uses it do describe how she feels etc, but the article also says that it has entered common English language usage as an adjective. In that common usage sense, outside of the song, what does it mean? -209.108.217.226 16:39, 20 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

It's used to describe something postive far beyond the known ranges of excellence...probably -Alex 12.220.157.93 12:40, 24 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think the definition given in the article is at all right. The reason being that the "ious" suffix doesn't apply soley to the last part, and also docious means submissive (as in docile) not educable. Besides, the definition "atoning for educability..." makes no sense, especially in the context the word is used.

Maybe it means that's it's the longest word in the world! i mean say it twenty times without breathing! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.169.82.130 (talk) 23:48, 14 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

According to Mary Poppins Herself Supercalifregilisticexpialidocious is a disease of the liver which is "very painful, spread by adults(intercourse)" and which she herself, Bert (Dick Van Dyke) and the Constible has. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.99.215.83 (talk) 04:09, 6 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Cleanup

Please change the link name [1] to something else.

A convention is to use the title of the linked page, so there is not much can be done. mikka (t) 23:39, 1 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

About the facts

in reading about the history of the word, there seems to be some disagreement. If possible, we need to get he cite for the brothers claiming to have created it.

this site (http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/msupercali.html) has disagreeing facts, and may want to be considered for revision of wikipedia's... or not.

PBS recently aired a show with one of the brothers telling how the lyrics came about. Perhaps his narrative could be used to check the facts and update Wikipedia with the informaton.

Rich 8-18-09 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.119.0.196 (talk) 18:47, 18 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Georgia Guy

Georgia Guy, I noticed you've removed my tag to delete this article. I'm not sure what your reasons for opposing the move are. At 00:24, on 1 May 2006, when removing the tag, you commented (Revert; how would a dictionary entry look like this??). If your asking me how a dictionary entry would look like this, then I'd have to reply, in all probability, and all honesty, it would be hard to see any other methodology than by virtue of having similar structure and content. What does that have to do with the wikipedia policy? --TheMadTim 00:41, 1 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

TheMadTim has to learn ENGLISH before he goes around tagging articles.

In fact, Georgia Guy, it might look a little something like this : Wiktionary entry for supercalifragilisticexpialidocious --TheMadTim 01:58, 1 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

"In popular culture"

Many entries here are difficult to verify. For example, In the Australian TV series, "The Wedge", they was a casnio joke with the ladies and the mother said that her child was a "Supercalifragilisticexpialidouchebag". In my opinion, only notable examples, i.e., mentioned in some reviews, must be included here. I may easlily invent a Turkish example, "Hülya Koçyiğit in her award-winning Zehra movie mocked American culture by the phrase 'Süleyman-i-rakiageçityapabilmeoğuz'". Of course, sooner or later (I suspect rather later) the hoax will be revealed, but wikipedia:Verifiability is in some trouble here. Mukadderat 20:26, 14 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I think there are too many "examples." We don't need every single mention from the Simpsons, etc. Ztrawhcs 12:34, 23 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I've found you another. Two minutes into "The Bastard Son Of Dean Friedman" by the band Half Man Half Biscuit. A twist though, it's a mangled mention - Supercalifragilisticborussiamonchengladbach. I'll leave you chaps to decided if it warrants a mention. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.109.4.147 (talk) 16:54, 20 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Just to verify the MS Word example, I have attached a photo... MS Word 2003 Professional —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.161.87.56 (talk) 07:45, 5 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

In 1965, John Lindsay, a popular Republican politician, successfully ran for the office of Mayor of New York City. He had been a US Representative of a district in NYC within which much live theatre occurred, known as the 'Silk Stocking' district. I recall that a large yellow banner was strung across the entrance of the New York Public Library which proclaimed, "John Lindsay is Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!", probably with reference to its use in the theater at that time. Johnlturk (talk) 04:54, 22 December 2009 (UTC)johnlturk[reply]

How can exclude the amazing 'Family Guy' references, not once, but twice?! Peter as Mary Poppins: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4-bJq8q8L4 The 2nd one is when Mary flashes her breasts to the kids (video unavailable on the Web). Macshill (talk) 01:05, 5 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Pronounciation

[ˌsu.pəˌkæ.lɪˌfɹæ.dʒəl.ɪs.tɪkˌɛk.spi.æ.lɪˈdəʊ.ʃəs])

Is it really pronounced Su-pe-kae-li-flae-d3el-is-tik-3k-spi-ae-li-deu-fes? At least that is how the above reads unless that is meant to mean something else. Its not clear. Simply south 01:16, 3 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

See the International Phonetic Alphabet John Reaves 01:25, 15 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Another reason the IPA is great: the attempted pronounciation afterwards doesn't make it clear whether the "g" in "-frag-" is the "g" in "fragment" or the "g" in "fragile." If only there was an unambiguos symbol we could use. Perhaps some sort of phonetic alphabet that was the same in every language. An... international phonetic alphabet. (Note: dʒ is and always will be, no matter than context, the "g" in "fragile." The "g" in "fragment" is written in IPA as "g.")

The word is mentioned in one of the parts of The Sandman graphic novel. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.90.214.77 (talk) 04:14, 1 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Lack of Constant Spelling

Decide, please. Is it Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious? Or Supercalifragilisticexpealidocious? --24.221.176.159 05:50, 22 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Spelling

But i thought it was spelled Supercalafragalisticespialadocious —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hybrid Dragon (talk • contribs) 23:09, 6 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Spelling of Title and Misspelling in Section 5

I updated the legal section to actually reflect what the valid citation said, and removed the non-valid citation.Brainmouse (talk) 02:01, 3 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

---They spell it in the song. "Super-calif-ragil-isticexpialido-cious" And they spelled "Choreography" wrong in the last sentence of section 5, they left out the first "h". ~B.M.

Film Version Link

Video link demonstrating "-repus" ending for backwards version of the word in the film "Mary Poppins": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3zAbQ0aMK8 Deconstructhis (talk) 05:13, 13 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

History of the word.

The current reference [1] on the history of the word can't possibly be true, since Disney didn't even get the rights to the film until 1961: Why would Sherman be working on a screenplay way back in 1951? We can amend the article to say that "the Shermans claim to have invented the word on their own in the creation of the Mary Poppins screenplay", but the current phrasing gives credit to their claim, which has no real standing whatsoever.

For reference, the Oxford English Dictionary (Second Edition 1989) has this to say on the word:

supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, a.
Also supercalifragilistic; formerly also other varr. [Fanciful: cf. SUPER a. 3.]
A nonsense-word used esp. by children, now chiefly expressing excited approbation: fantastic, fabulous.
Made popular by the Walt Disney film ‘Mary Poppins’ in 1964. The song containing the word was the subject of a copyright infringement suit brought in 1965 against the makers of the film by Life Music Co. and two song-writers: cf. quots. 1949, 1951. In view of earlier oral uses of the word sworn to in affidavits and dissimilarity between the songs the judge ruled against the plaintiffs.
1949 PARKER & YOUNG (unpublished song-title) Supercalafajalistickespialadojus. 1951 {emem} (song-title) Supercalafajalistickespeealadojus; or, The super song. 1964 R. M. & R. B. SHERMAN (song-title) Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! 1967 Decisions U.S. Courts involving Copyright 1965-66 488 The complaint alleges copyright infringement of plaintiff's song ‘Supercalafajalistickespeealadojus’ by defendants' song ‘Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious’. (All variants of this tongue twister will hereinafter be referred to collectively as ‘the word’.) 1971 Daily Tel. 6 Nov. 13/5 If you can stand more than a day of Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious entertainment you can settle in at the concrete Contemporary Resort Hotel. 1972 Atlanta Constitution 9 Apr. 20A/1 Disney World, the new supercalifragilisticexpialidocious tourist attraction created by the folks who brought you Mickey Mouse, is packing them into Orlando. 1980 Amer. Speech LV. 266 Whatever the ancestry of supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, it entered the general public consciousness as a result of the wonderful world of Disney. 1982 N.Y. Post 29 July 64/3 His eyes are willing unspoken words to life as though they were part of one of those supercalafragilistic electronic scoreboards.

Cheers, Vectro (talk) 03:21, 19 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

lyrics

Doesn't anyone think the lyrics to this song from Mary Poppins would be appropriate to include in the page. 66.69.107.32 (talk) 07:00, 3 February 2009 (UTC)BunnyStrider[reply]

Wikipedia is not a lyrics source I'm afraid - they're not relevant to an encyclopaedia article and they're likely copyrighted. —Vanderdecken∴ ∫ξ φ 12:11, 3 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Inital Sentence Malfunction

I just wanted to point out currently the final introductory sentence: "Based on the word's usage in song form, it can be inferred that it's an adjective, that was created from the words 'superb'."

Seems to suggest that another word or words will be listed. I would correct the sentence myself but I am not able to edit this page. I can suggest that the other words might be: California, fragile, expiate and/or docile. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.218.228.246 (talk) 20:53, 9 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I personally hate this word. It just confuses all of mankind to using some useless word instead broadening their minds and use a more articulate word :) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.2.95.92 (talk • contribs)

I most fortissimously disagrify. Lee M (talk) 21:18, 3 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Clarification Required

Not that I so much care, but Disney winning the copyright lawsuit on grounds of the word preexisting directly contradicts the song authors claims of coining the word from thin air. The article is locked, this should be made clear (obviously the article is wrong or the authors were dishonest and the article is therefor misleading) by an admin or whoever.--99.197.224.56 (talk) 12:11, 30 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Um, backwards she says docious-ali-expi-listic-fragi-cali-rupus. Watch the movie! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.105.72.133 (talk) 22:26, 31 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Edit request from Tilde Binger, 16 April 2010

{{editsemiprotected}}

Suggested addition to the "In Popular Culture":

In the last episode of the TV-series 'The Vicar of Dibley' [2], we learn the full name of the main protagonist, the reverend Geraldine Granger : Geraldine Julie Andrews Dick Van Dyke Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Chim Chiminey Chim Chiminey Chim Chim Cher-ee Granger

--Tilde Binger (talk) 13:59, 16 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Already done The "In popular Culture" section already contains a line stating On the popular show The Vicar of Dibley it reveals that part of the vicar's name is "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious". I think that covers it already? Excirial^{(Contact me,Contribs)} 15:35, 16 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Spelling Mistake

Choreographer is misspelt in the last sentence of the Stage Musical section.

Taken care of. Thanks! -- Why Not A Duck 22:42, 4 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Suggested addition to 'in popular culture'

The song was parodied by medical satirists "Amateur Transplants" on the 2004 album "Fitness to Practice" as "Paracetamoxyfrusebendroneomycin"- a song about a brand new wonderdrug with many boastful qualities.

(Ref:-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitness_to_Practice)

Wombatdoc (talk) 22:34, 10 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Dociousaliexpilisticfragicalirupus

You've spelled it wrong it's not 'dociousaliexpiisticfragicalirupus' its 'dociousaliexpilisticfragicalirupus'. You missed the 'l' out. You also put 'repus' instead of 'rupus' near the end of the section. Please correct. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.31.135.49 (talk) 13:32, 15 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Edit request from Mikebreslin, 25 August 2010

{{editsemiprotected}} Simple typo, please change "Rodney Pattison won three Olympic medals is sailing during the games of 1968 (Gold), 1972 (Gold) and 1976 (Silver) in a Flying Dutchman called Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious written in large colorful waves on the hull." to "Rodney Pattison won three Olympic medals in sailing during the games of 1968 (Gold), 1972 (Gold) and 1976 (Silver) in a Flying Dutchman called Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious written in large colorful waves on the hull."

Mikebreslin (talk) 10:00, 25 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Done Thanks, Stickee (talk) 10:12, 25 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

@@ Line 51: / Line 51: @@
 In 1965, John Lindsay, a popular Republican politician, successfully ran for the office of Mayor of New York City.  He had been a US Representative of a district in NYC within which much live theatre occurred, known as the 'Silk Stocking' district.  I recall that a large yellow banner was strung across the entrance of the New York Public Library which proclaimed, "John Lindsay is Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!", probably with reference to its use in the theater at that time.  [[User:Johnlturk|Johnlturk]] ([[User talk:Johnlturk|talk]]) 04:54, 22 December 2009 (UTC)johnlturk
+How can exclude the amazing [['Family Guy']] references, not once, but twice?!
+Peter as Mary Poppins: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4-bJq8q8L4
+The 2nd one is when Mary flashes her breasts to the kids (video unavailable on the Web). [[User:Macshill|Macshill]] ([[User talk:Macshill|talk]]) 01:05, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
 == Pronounciation ==