Interview on WNYC’s “The Leonard Lopate Show” about the contentious history of the word “supercalifragilisticexpialodocious” (Apr. 27, 2012).
Ben Zimmer, language columnist for the Boston Globe and executive producer of the Visual Thesaurus and Vocabulary.com, tells the untold story behind the word “supercalifragilisticexpialodocious.” He wrote about it in his latest Boston Globe column.
(Show page, streaming audio, download, related Boston Globe column, Word Routes column)