Random fact of the day: The fear of long words is called Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia. The 36-letter word was first used by the Roman poet Horace in the first century BCE to criticise those writers with an unreasonable penchant for long words "sesquipedalia verba”. It was American poet Aimee Nezheukumatathil, (ironic I know having such a long name) who added a few more syllables (for effect ?) and "phobia" to the end to give us the full word.