Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Sing-Along

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious is an English word in the song with the same title in the musical film Mary Poppins. The song was written by the Sherman Brothers, and sung by Julie Andrews and Dick van Dyke.

Since Mary Poppins was a period piece set in 1910, period sounding songs were wanted. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious sounds like popular folk songs "Boiled Beef and Carrots" and "Any Old Iron".

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious is a nonsense word. The critics' belief that the word itself has obscure origins has created some debate about when it was first used historically. According to Richard M. Sherman, co-writer of the song with his brother, Robert, the word was created by them in two weeks, mostly out of double-talk.

Roots of the word have been defined as follows: super- "above", cali- "beauty", fragilistic- "delicate", expeali- "to atone", and docious- "educable", with the sum of these parts signifying roughly "Atoning for educatability through delicate beauty." This explication of its connotations suits the nature of fictional Mary Poppins, who presents herself as both extremely beautiful and also supremely intelligent and capable of great achievements. However, it should be noted that although the word contains recognizable English morphemes, it does not follow the rules of English morphology as a whole. The morpheme -istic is a suffix in English, whereas the morpheme ex- is typically a prefix; so following normal English morphological rules, it would represent two words: supercalifragilistic and expialidocious'.

Additionally, according to the 1964 Walt Disney film, it's defined as "what you say when you don't know what to say".

According to the film version of the song, "you can say it backwards, which is docious-ali-expi-listic-fragi-cali-repus". Julie Andrews, the star of Mary Poppins, has said that her husband at the time, Tony Walton, devised this backwards version of the word. In that word, the main syllables are reversed, rather than the order of each letter, with the exception of the end part 'repus', which is 'super' spelled backwards. In contrast, the musical play's version of the song presents a version of the word with all the letters reversed (suoicodilaipxecitsiligarfilacrepus).prounounced as sue-codiliap-exit-silly-garf-illa-creapus. In addition, they spelled and sang each letter of the famous tongue twister, similar to "Do-Re-Mi" from The Sound of Music.

In 1965, the song was the subject of an unsuccessful lawsuit by songwriters Barney Young and Gloria Parker against Wonderland Music, who published the version of the song from the Walt Disney film. The plaintiffs alleged that it was a copyright infringement of a 1951 song of their own called Supercalafajalistickespeealadojus. The Disney publishers won the lawsuit partially because affidavits were produced showing that "variants of the word were known many years prior to 1949."

In the 1942 movie "The Undying Monster" (directed by John Brahm), the character Rob Curtis (played by James Ellison) says of character Christy, "She has an overactive supercalifragilis." He goes on to define the word as "female intuition." This passage does not appear in the 1936 novel by Jessie Douglas Kerruish." The screenplay was written by: Lillie Hayward and Michael Jacoby.

In the West End and Broadway musical, everyone runs out of conversations, and Mary and the children go to Mrs. Corry's shop, where you can buy them. Jane and Michael pick out some letters and spell a few words. Bert and Mrs. Corry use the letters to make some words (whose existence Jane doubts). Mary says that you could use some letters more than one time and creates the longest word of all in this song.

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[doommaster956]

why is this so catchy supercalifragilistickexpialido­cious!!!!

[DisneyVillain]

@doommaster956 Because it'll save your aching nose.

[reformation95]

@DisneyVillian that pnemonoultramicroscopicsilicov­­olcanoconiosis thingy is just a scientific name for lung disease :)

[DisneyVillain]

@reformation95 Thank you

[deathex40]

lol i hate how people think this is the longest word ...(Supercalifragilisticexpial­idocious) when really the logest word in the dictionary is pnemonoultramicroscopicsilicov­olcanoconiosis

[DisneyVillain]

@deathex40 What's its definition?

[ndreamon]

supercalifaraa.... okay, I'm dyslexic.

[woahITZscyan]

13 people cant say supercalifragilistickexpialido­cious :3

[thetaenylovers]

who else came here because snsd jessica's photobok? lol

[SockMonkeyspeedstack]

love it x!

[kindogbieber]

everyone does not know how to say it but i do!

[yaying404]

they lost me after super lol

[loverdots12]

im on the bad side of youtube again/....

[Webkinzman2000]

@TeddybearPT its spelled Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilico­volcanoconiosis

[Webkinzman2000]

@HeWhoDarez thats not how you spell it, it's: supercalifragilisticexpialidoc­ious. :P

[TheAcientAmphibian]

I hate how people try to beat this supercalifragilisticexpialidoc­ious record by trying to find a longer word like, pnemonoultramicroscopicsilicov­­olcanoconiosis. If people think this is the longer let them have fun!

This is for the people having fun with it! XD

And for the spoiling it! BOO :P :(

[mathgirl31]

13 people r jealous cos they cant say supercalifragilistiticexpialid­ocious (by the way i didnt copy and paste it) i swear

[KaylaSimone223]

I loveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee it ... I got it down pact !