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Antidisestablishmentarianism …
Posted by rod@drury.net.nz in Old-blog-archives at 2:02 pm on Friday, 26 November 2004

… is a word I remember as being one of the longest words in the dictionary when I was 10.

I remember it as being the theory that the church should remain seperate from the state.  Never did I think I would use Antidisestablishmentarianism in a sentence.

Until last Friday when an Irish guy was talking about how in Ireland they had a referendum on whether divorce should be legal or not. 

Seizing my opportunity I replied, “How can the state decide a religious issue, that’s Antidisestablishmentarianism“

A small goal accomplished.

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Comments(2)

    Comment by Jeffrey at 10:43 am on 30 April 2008

    HotForWords gave a lesson on this word: http://youtube.com/watch?v=fv2_rSCnBQQ




    Comment by Frey at 5:02 am on 5 February 2010

    this is clever, ive always wanted to know what it means, so i just looked it up, now i really want to use it in a sentense! i will randomly have to strike up a convo about it, haha. =]