Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

Dear Kids:

Here's an educational lesson for you on this warm and windy Labor Day weekend.

According to wikipedia, the very fabulous and completely entertaining word "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" is an English word, with 34 letters, that was in the song with the same title in the Disney musical film Mary Poppins. The song was written by the Sherman Brothers, and sung by Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke.

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.

The roots of the word have been defined 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." 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. The pronunciation also leans towards it being two words since, the letter c doesn't normally sound like a k when followed by an e, an i or a y.

Meanwhile; according to the 1964 Walt Disney film, it is defined as "something to say when you have nothing to say".

So all of this to bring me to the main point of this blog; which is this:

I really can't think of anything to say :)

SO I'll just say this - happy Labor day weekend - mama loves ya !

Oh- and PS: We are very excited about our new foreign exchange student who arrived quite early Saturday morning -Elva - from Taiwan! She is fabulous!