Talk:Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious/Archive 2

Spelling

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

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)

---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)

Doesn't she say -rupes?

(s)(upe)(r)(cali)(fragi)(listi­c)(expi)(ali)(docious)

(docious)(ali)(expi)(listic)(f­ragi)(cali)(r)(upe)(s)

Asciipott (talk) 01:57, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

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1949 PARKER & YOUNG (unpublished song-title) Supercalafajalistickespialadojus. 1951 {emem} (song-title) Supercalafajalistickespeealadojus; or, The super song. 1964 R. M. & R. B. SHERMAN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)

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

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

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)

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)