Words of the Day

By virtue of having one more letter than antidisestablishmentarianism, this is the longest non-technical English word. A mash up of five Latin roots, it refers to the act of describing something as having little or no value. While it made the cut in the Oxford English Dictionary, Merriam-Webster volumes refuse to recognize it, chalking up its existence to little more than linguistic ephemera.

Latin floccus (“a wisp”) +‎ naucum (“a trifle”) +‎ nihilum (“nothing”) +‎ pilus (“a hair”) + English -fication

Even more impressive, the output of one morphological rule can
be the input to another, or to itself: one can talk about the unmicro-
waveability of some French fries or a toothbrush-holder fastener box
in which to keep one's toothbrush-holder fasteners. This makes the
number of possible words in a language bigger than immense; like
the number of sentences, it is infinite. Putting aside fanciful coinages
concocted for immortality in Guinness, a candidate for the longest
word to date in English might be floccinaucinihilipilification, defined
in the Oxford English Dictionary as "the categorizing of something as
worthless or trivial." But that is a record meant to be broken:
floccinaucinihilipilificational: pertaining to the categorizing
of something as worthless or trivial
floccinaucinihilipilificationalize: to cause something to pertain
to the categorizing of something as worthless or trivial
floccinaucinihilipilificationalization: the act of causing some-
thing to pertain to the categorizing of something as worth-
less or trivial

"disaster, garbage, etc.. Similar to flop, flunk, blubber, etc.: pejorative meaning by association

E.g.

"exchangeable"

- It is consistent for two identical entities
to become different under deterministic and symmetrical laws. But, for that
to happen, they must initially be more than just exact images of each
other: they must be fungible (the g is pronounced as in 'plunger'), by
which I mean identical in literally every way except that there are two of
them. The concept of fungibility is going to appear repeatedly in my story.
The term is borrowed from legal terminology, where it refers to the legal
fiction that deems certain entities to be identical for purposes such as
paying debts. For example, dollar bills are fungible in law, which means
that, unless otherwise agreed, borrowing a dollar does not require one to
return the specific banknote that one borrowed. Barrels of oil (of a given
grade) are fungible too. Horses are not: borrowing someone's horse means
that one has to return that specific horse; even its identical twin will
not do. (Deutsch - Infinity)

- Sullivan basically ignored this question. The closest he came to an
explanation was a passage saying that “global economic forces” hurt
blue-collar workers in particular, forcing them to compete with lots of
other unskilled and basically fungible human beings around the world. (Taibbi - Insane Clown President)

- It is a sort of by-any-means-necessary, no-sin-is-too-grave, all-facts-are-fungible space in the moral universe where the rules of basic human decency warp.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/29/opinion/donald-trump-greg-gianforte.html