[Publib] Biblioblogosphere

[Joe Schallan]

This is an actual word used in the American Libraries
Breaking News story, "Librarians’ Outcry Returns
'Abortion' to Federal Health Database."

Wow.

Up until now, I thought English ran a very poor second
to German for lengthy, conglomerated nouns. German,
after all, gives us things like

Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzung

which means "speed limit."

And near my hometown in Iowa, we have an old
German-Catholic church, the cornerstone of which says
"Kirche zur Hochheiligedreifaeltigkeit," which is to
say "Church of the Most Holy Trinity."

But now, "biblioblogosphere."

Wow.

And there are the things it serves as a root for:

Biblioblogospheric (pertaining to the
biblioblogosphere)

Biblioblogospherology (the study of the
biblioblogosphere)

Biblioblogospherologic (adj form)

Biblioblogospherologistical (I've lost track)



Look out, Fritz, here we come.

Joe S.
PHX



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