Greek Alphabet – Mallaband-Brown

akespeare’s tragicomedy The Winter’s Tale

the character Antigonus meets his demise.

mous and mysterious stage directions, desc

nile abandoning a baby in a desolate place.

……. .

I wrote the words the right way up to make it easier for you. I think I first decided to learn to read upside down at school. I was in class and wanted to read what my teacher had written about me… I was around 9 or 10 and I guess, nosy!

Is this something anyone else has done? I also used to write my name forwards with my right hand and backwards at the same time with my left, mirroring the right hand script.

I also learned the Greek alphabet from my dictionary on one occasion. It was just something interesting to do…

It’s funny how memories suddenly wake up in your mind, I don’t know why this stuck…..

Or as I remember it “floccynoccynillylipification” which is apparently the longest non technical word.

What does it mean? I’ll tell you in a bit…

I couldn’t remember how to spell it, but it lingers in the mind. I must have found it when I was little (I also learnt the Greek Alphabet off by heart from the dictionary) (alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, zeta, eta, theta, iota, kappa, lambda, mu, nu, xi, omicron, pi, roh, sigma, tau, upsilon, phi, chi, psi, omega) these may be wrong I just dragged them up from my memory.

By comparing these two things I don’t mean to indicate that the Greek Alphabet is useless! The root of many words can be traced back to the Greek Alphabet. And floccinaucinihilipilification is apparently made up of five Latin words strung together. No this post is about memory, in particular my silly and strange brain.

According to the Cambridge dictionary it means “the act of considering something to be not at all important or useful – used mainly as an example of a very long word”

It’s also considered to mean “worthless”. I hope you don’t think this post is?!

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Greek Alphabet

Upside down reading….

floccinaucinihilipilification