"Phrstomnicalism" (apart from being the title of my blog) is a word I made up when I was fifteen (I believe for an English homework- we'd been looking at entries from 'The Deeper Meaning of Liff' by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd), and "phrstomnicalism" itself is a phrstomnicalism. Phrstomnicalisms (I think I'm going to copy the word now, so that I just have to paste it each time- it is much too long to bother typing out each time) are those frustratingly annoyingly overly long words, which are impossible to pronounce due to the over-abundance of consonants in them.
It is one of my favourite made up words, and the only major one that has actually stuck with me, and that I actually use. (And then usually receive the response of "a what?!?")
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