Playboy After Hours
January, 1967
A while ago, in an After Hours discussion of the Guinness Book of World Records, we touted--as a public service to cocktail-party conversationalists--"floccipaucinihilipilification," the longest word in The Oxford English Dictionary. Floccipaucinihilipilification means "the action or habit of estimating as worthless," and fairly summed up our attitude toward words of its ilk--until recently, when we encountered no less than ten long fellows in a record-setting telegram that G...
