Brobdingnagian! My favorite word!
this post was submitted on 02 Oct 2024
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I was like "but the other three are real words..."
Apparently diminutive is the only one that doesn't trace its origin to the book. TIL! Funny how language works.
It's an excellent word.
I learned it from an Iron Man novel in the nineties.
Surely named after the famously tall people of Brobdingnagia
Did Jonathon Swift write this?
Yes, Jonathon Swift wrote the original Gulliver's Travels.
I totally missed the title!
No worries man, nobody's perfect 👍
He did. It's an interesting read, though I have severe differences of opinion with the author
I totally missed the title!