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'''Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious''' ({{pronEng|ˌsuːpɚˌkælɪˌfrædʒəlˌɪstɪkˌɛkspiːˌælɪˈdoʊʃəs}}) is an [[English language|English]] word in the song with the same title in the musical film ''[[Mary Poppins (film)|Mary Poppins]]''. The song was written by the [[Sherman Brothers]], and sung by [[Julie Andrews]] and [[Dick van Dyke]].
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Since Mary Poppins was a period piece set in 1910, period sounding songs were wanted. ''Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious'' sounds like popular folk songs "Boiled Beef and Carrots" and [[Any Old Iron (song)|"Any Old Iron"]].<ref>The Making of Mary Poppins, 2004</ref>
'''Wisin & Yandel Presenta: La Mente Maestra''' is a compilation album to be released november 4th, 2008 by [[Wisin & Yandel]].

==Origin==
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious is a nonsense word. The critics' belief that the word itself has obscure origins has created some debate about when it was first used historically. According to Richard M. Sherman, co-writer of the song with his brother, Robert, the word was created by them in two weeks, mostly out of [[double-talk]].<ref>[http://laist.com/2007/11/02/laist_interview_66.php LAist Interview: Richard M. Sherman, November 2, 2007]</ref>

Roots of the word have been defined<ref>by [[Richard Lederer]] in his book ''[[Crazy English]]''</ref> as follows: super- "above", cali- "beauty", fragilistic- "delicate", expiali- "to atone", and docious- "educable", with the sum of these parts signifying roughly "Atoning for educability through delicate beauty." This explication of its connotations suits the nature of Mary Poppins, who presents herself as both extremely [[physical attractiveness|beautiful]] and also supremely intelligent and capable of great achievements.{{Facts|date=February 2007}} However, it should be noted that although the word contains recognizable English [[morphemes]], it does not follow the rules of English [[Morphology (linguistics)|morphology]] as a whole. The morpheme ''-istic'' is a suffix in English, whereas the morpheme ''ex-'' is typically a prefix; so following normal English morphological rules, it would represent two words: ''supercalifragilistic'' and ''expialidocious''. As one word, it also violates the rule that the letter ''c'' cannot sound like a ''k'' when followed by an ''e'', an ''i'' or a ''y''.

Additionally, according to the 1964 [[Walt Disney]] [[Mary Poppins (film)|film]], it's defined as "what you say when you don't know what to say".<ref>[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058331/quotes Mary Poppins (1964) - Memorable quotes<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>

In the 1942 movie "The Undying Monster" (directed by John Brahm), the character Rob Curtis (played by James Ellison) says of character Christy, "She has an overactive supercalifragilis." He goes on to define the word as "female intuition." This passage does not appear in the 1936 novel by Jessie Douglas Kerruish." The screenplay was written by: Lillie Hayward and Michael Jacoby.

==Backwards==
According to the film version of the song, "you can say it backwards, which is '''docious-ali-expi-listic-fragi-cali-repus'''". [[Julie Andrews]], the star of ''Mary Poppins'', has said that her husband at the time, [[Tony Walton]], devised this backwards version of the word.{{Facts|date=February 2007}} In that word, the main [[syllable]]s are reversed, rather than the order of each letter, with the exception of the end part 'repus', which is 'super' spelled backwards. In contrast, the musical play's version of the song presents a version of the word with all the letters reversed ('''suoicodilaipxecitsiligarfilacrepus''').prounounced as sue-codiliap-exit-silly-garf-illa-creapus. {{Facts|date=February 2007}} In addition, they spelled and sang each letter of the famous [[tongue twister]], similar to "[[Do-Re-Mi]]" from ''[[The Sound of Music]]''.

==Legal action==
In 1965, the song was the subject of an unsuccessful [[lawsuit]] by songwriters [[Gloria Parker]] and Barney Young against Wonderland Music, who published the version of the song from the [[Walt Disney]] film.<ref>[http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/msupercali.html "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" origins], [[The Straight Dope]]</ref> The plaintiffs alleged that it was a [[copyright infringement]] of a 1951 song of their own called ''Supercalafajalistickespeealadojus''. Also known as '''The Super Song''', ''Supercalafajalistickespeealadojus'' was recorded by [[Alan Holmes]] and his New Tones on [[Columbia Records]], Vocal by Hal Marquess and the Holmes Men, music and lyrics by Patricia Smith a [[Gloria Parker]] pen name.
The Disney publishers won the lawsuit partially because affidavits were produced showing that "variants of the word were known (...) many years prior to 1949."

==On Broadway==
In the [[Mary Poppins (musical)|West End and Broadway musical]], everyone runs out of conversations, and Mary and the children go to Mrs. Corry's shop, where you can buy them. Jane and Michael pick out some letters and spell a few words. Bert and Mrs. Corry use the letters to make some words (whose existence Jane doubts). Mary says that you could use some letters more than one time and creates the longest word of all in this song.{{Facts|date=February 2007}}



==In popular culture==
* Dance Rock band [[Cobra Starship]] uses the word in a parody version of [[Gwen Stefani|Gwen Stefani's]] "[[Hollaback Girl]]", entitled "Hollaback Boy".
* Annie ([[Scarlett Johansson]]), herself a nanny, tells her pupil Greyer "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" is the longest word in English in ''[[The Nanny Diaries (film)|The Nanny Diaries]]''. When he asks her what it means, she changes the subject.
* In the ''[[Disney's House of Mouse|House of Mouse]]'' episode "Goofy for a Day", Goofy sings "Soup or Salad, Fries or Biscuits" which is set to the melody of ''Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious''.
* An [[April Fool's Day]] weather promo created by [[Connecticut]]'s [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] [[affiliate]], [[WTNH]], in 2005, was called "Supercalifragilisticexpialidoppler". The promos, now only seen on [[YouTube]] and the station's website, have become very popular.
*In a ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' skit, about shortening words, [[Chris Farley]] says "Supercalifragilisticexpialidoc". This skit can be seen on the DVD "SNL Collection-The best of David Spade"
*The political satire group the [[Capitol Steps]] has parodied the word and song numerous times with songs such as SuperCaliforniaRecallFreakShowWasAtrocious, SuperJealousFragileMissWithSexualNeurosis, SuperCallousMeanAndNastyRightWingLegislation, and SuperFranticUnproductiveNothingLegislation. [https://albums.capitolsteps.com/cgi-bin/miva?albums/order.mv]
*[[Ross Bagdasarian]] had [[Alvin and the Chipmunks]] sing the song in their "squeaky" version on the CDs ''Alvin and the Chipmunks Greatest Hits: Still Squeaky After All These Years'' and ''The Chipmunks Go To The Movies''.
*[[Graeme Garden]] sang the words to the tune of [[Beethoven's]] [[9th Symphony]] ([[Ode to Joy]]) (the [[European Anthem]]) on ''[[I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue]]'' on [[BBC Radio 4]].
* ''[[That's So Raven]]'' star [[Orlando Brown]] remixed the song into a rap version called "Super Cali" for ''[[DisneyMania 4]]''.
*The famous French girl vocal group [[Les Poppys]] recorded their 1977 album ''Les Poppys Chantent [[Walt Disney]]'' (The Poppys sing Walt Disney) which included the French version of this song entitled "Supercalifragilisticexpidelilicieux".
* When [[Inverness Caledonian Thistle FC]] remarkably beat [[Celtic FC]] in the [[Scottish Cup]] 3-1 in February 2000 ''[[The Sun]]'' reported the story with the headline "Super Caley go ballistic, Celtic are atrocious".
* Punk rock band [[The Vandals]] did a cover of this song on their 1995 ''Live Fast, Diarrhea''.
* In the Adult Swim cartoon ''[[Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law]]'', in EP18 ("Gone Efficien... t"), there appears a PDA called the "Supercalifragilisticexpiefficaceous".
* At the end of [[Mindless Self Indulgence]]'s 2008 tour Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious was played and lip synced to.
* [[Ghostface Killah]] raps "Supercalifragalisticexpialidocious, Dociousaliexpifragalisticcalisuper" in ''Buck 50'' from the 2000 album, [[Supreme Clientele]].
*In the ''[[The Fairly OddParents]]'' episode "Remy Rides Again", after Remy sends Vicky into space, Timmy's new babysitter is Susie Califragilistic, and her personality (and name) is an obvious parody of Mary Poppins (and [[Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious]]). Also, in the episode "No Substitute For Crazy", the substitute teacher Ms. Sunshine is a parody of Mary Poppins herself, along with all the variations of [[Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious]] used in the episode by Ms. Sunshine and Cosmo.
* [[Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious]] is the thirteenth episode of ''[[The Simpsons]]''' [[The Simpsons (season 8)|eighth season]], featuring Shary Bobbins, a clear parody of [[Mary Poppins]].
* The very first word of the song "Stoner Hate" by [[Scars on Broadway]] is "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious".
* In [[Dana Carvey]]'s [[HBO]] stand-up special ''Squatting Monkeys Tell No Lies'', Carvey does a small bit making fun of [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]] and his pronunciation of the word [[California]], in which Carvey-as-Schwarzenegger substitutes several similar-sounding words for the state's name; one of these is "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious." After saying this word, Carvey (in Schwarzenegger's voice) says to an audience member, "That's how far I extrapolated; I referred to ''[[Mary Poppins (film)|Mary Poppins]]''. You have to be over 45 years of age to get the joke."
* [[Amateur Transplants]] - Adam Kay and Suman Biswas - sang "Paracetomoxyfrusebendroneomycin" - a parody of the Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious song.
* In the Broadway musical ''[[The Lion King (musical)|The Lion King]]'', the primary antagonist, Scar asks Zazu to "sing something with a little bounce in it." Zazu responds by beginning to sing "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" (in the film, he sings "[[It's a Small World]]") when Scar cuts him off by saying, "No! Anything but that."
* On the episode of [[The Colbert Report]] first aired on Oct. 2, 2008, host Stephen Colbert uses the term [[supercalifragilisticexpializillion]] to describe an alternate sum United States Treasury Secretary [[Henry Paulson]] could have requested for the so-called bail out to alleviate the 2008 credit crisis rather than 700 billion dollars, an amount with no apparent specific justification for selection.
*A ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' [[Sketch_comedy|sketch]] first aired [[October 4]], [[2008]] starring [[Anne Hathaway]] as [[Mary Poppins]] refers to the definition of the word as meaning a [[Liver disease|disease of the liver]] that is very painful and "spread by adults." Watch the video [http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/clips/mary-poppins/727503/ here.]

==See also==
*[[Antidisestablishmentarianism]]
*[[Gloria Parker]]
*[[Longest word in English]]

==References==
{{Refimprove|date=February 2007}}
{{reflist}}
* [[Sherman, Robert B.]] ''[[Walt's Time: from before to beyond]]''. Santa Clarita: Camphor Tree Publishers

==External links==
{{wiktionarypar|supercalifragilisticexpialidocious}}
*[http://www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/lyrics/supercal.htm "Supercalifragilisticexpealidocious"] at the [[National Institutes of Health]], Department of Health & Human Services (NIEHS). (Lyrics and Quicktime audio clip).
*[http://www.reelclassics.com/Musicals/MaryPoppins/marypoppins.htm ''Mary Poppins'' (1964)] at ''Reel Classics''; features "Multimedia Clips": incl. [http://www.reelclassics.com/Audio_Video/Videos7s/marypop_highlights2.mov Mary Poppins Highlights: "Supercalifragilisticexpealidocious!"]. (Quicktime video clip).

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Revision as of 00:01, 13 October 2008

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (Template:PronEng) is an English word in the song with the same title in the musical film Mary Poppins. The song was written by the Sherman Brothers, and sung by Julie Andrews and Dick van Dyke.

Since Mary Poppins was a period piece set in 1910, period sounding songs were wanted. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious sounds like popular folk songs "Boiled Beef and Carrots" and "Any Old Iron".[1]

Origin

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious is a nonsense word. The critics' belief that the word itself has obscure origins has created some debate about when it was first used historically. According to Richard M. Sherman, co-writer of the song with his brother, Robert, the word was created by them in two weeks, mostly out of double-talk.[2]

Roots of the word have been defined[3] as follows: super- "above", cali- "beauty", fragilistic- "delicate", expiali- "to atone", and docious- "educable", with the sum of these parts signifying roughly "Atoning for educability through delicate beauty." This explication of its connotations suits the nature of Mary Poppins, who presents herself as both extremely beautiful and also supremely intelligent and capable of great achievements.[citation needed] However, it should be noted that although the word contains recognizable English morphemes, it does not follow the rules of English morphology as a whole. The morpheme -istic is a suffix in English, whereas the morpheme ex- is typically a prefix; so following normal English morphological rules, it would represent two words: supercalifragilistic and expialidocious. As one word, it also violates the rule that the letter c cannot sound like a k when followed by an e, an i or a y.

Additionally, according to the 1964 Walt Disney film, it's defined as "what you say when you don't know what to say".[4]

In the 1942 movie "The Undying Monster" (directed by John Brahm), the character Rob Curtis (played by James Ellison) says of character Christy, "She has an overactive supercalifragilis." He goes on to define the word as "female intuition." This passage does not appear in the 1936 novel by Jessie Douglas Kerruish." The screenplay was written by: Lillie Hayward and Michael Jacoby.

Backwards

According to the film version of the song, "you can say it backwards, which is docious-ali-expi-listic-fragi-cali-repus". Julie Andrews, the star of Mary Poppins, has said that her husband at the time, Tony Walton, devised this backwards version of the word.[citation needed] In that word, the main syllables are reversed, rather than the order of each letter, with the exception of the end part 'repus', which is 'super' spelled backwards. In contrast, the musical play's version of the song presents a version of the word with all the letters reversed (suoicodilaipxecitsiligarfilacrepus).prounounced as sue-codiliap-exit-silly-garf-illa-creapus. [citation needed] In addition, they spelled and sang each letter of the famous tongue twister, similar to "Do-Re-Mi" from The Sound of Music.

Legal action

In 1965, the song was the subject of an unsuccessful lawsuit by songwriters Gloria Parker and Barney Young against Wonderland Music, who published the version of the song from the Walt Disney film.[5] The plaintiffs alleged that it was a copyright infringement of a 1951 song of their own called Supercalafajalistickespeealadojus. Also known as The Super Song, Supercalafajalistickespeealadojus was recorded by Alan Holmes and his New Tones on Columbia Records, Vocal by Hal Marquess and the Holmes Men, music and lyrics by Patricia Smith a Gloria Parker pen name. The Disney publishers won the lawsuit partially because affidavits were produced showing that "variants of the word were known (...) many years prior to 1949."

On Broadway

In the West End and Broadway musical, everyone runs out of conversations, and Mary and the children go to Mrs. Corry's shop, where you can buy them. Jane and Michael pick out some letters and spell a few words. Bert and Mrs. Corry use the letters to make some words (whose existence Jane doubts). Mary says that you could use some letters more than one time and creates the longest word of all in this song.[citation needed]


In popular culture

See also

References

  1. ^ The Making of Mary Poppins, 2004
  2. ^ LAist Interview: Richard M. Sherman, November 2, 2007
  3. ^ by Richard Lederer in his book Crazy English
  4. ^ Mary Poppins (1964) - Memorable quotes
  5. ^ "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" origins, The Straight Dope

External links

Look up supercalifragilisticexpialidocious in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
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