The first time you hear it, the word *slams* into your consciousness like a linguistic firework. It’s long, it’s impossible to pronounce without stumbling, and it’s utterly, gloriously *fun*. “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious”—the word that burst into the cultural lexicon courtesy of *Mary Poppins* in 1964—isn’t just a random string of syllables. It’s a linguistic masterpiece, a phonetic […]