Of Cruel Words

Lisp.

Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia.

I'm sure we can all think of a few more. Well, I can't at the moment, but if I do I'll add them. Why are they cruel? Well one would think that lisp is obvious. Perhaps hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia, slightly less so.

Lisp. Lithp. "Why are you talking like that?" "I have a lithp". It just doesn't really work. Every time a person with a lisp has to explain that they have a lisp, they have to say a word with an 's' in. Whoever thought of that was an evil genius. They could probably have taken over the world with a mind like that. Likewise hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia.

It has 35 letters. 35 letters and 15 syllables. 35 letters, 15 syllables in a word meaning fear of long words. There is something very very wrong with that picture. VERY wrong. "Oh, you have a medical condition, what is it?" "A fear of long words" "I don't believe you, what's the medical word?" "Hippopotomonstro.. AAGGHHHH *runs away screaming and crying*" Yeah, that's a great word.