Talk:Honorificabilitudinitatibus

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Thanks a lot. I had to abruptly cut off, having pressing business to attend to. - Arthur George Carrick 02:09, 2 Dec 2003 (UTC)


Nice entry on this word, missing one thing ... what does it mean? - David Gerard 10:32, Feb 17, 2004 (UTC)

and how do you pronounce it

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[edit] Incorrect use of "hapax legomenon"

"Only appearing once in Shakespeare's works, it is a hapax legomenon." According to the Wikipedia entry for hapax legomenon, this usage is in fact incorrect. Is it acceptable to use it in this looser sense?

According to the hapax legomenon as of 2007-01-15, the use would in fact be appropriate, being a word that occurs once and only once in the works of an author. All works currently attributed to to Shakespeare being the corpus, "Honorificabilitudinitatibus" does indeed occur only once. Thus, it would be sufficient to fit the criteron established for a hapax legomenon of Shakespeare. (Of course, not more diversely as in the corpus of all modern English work, or even Latin.) --Puellanivis 00:10, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Where does the word appear?

Where in Love's Labour's Lost do we find honorificabilitudinitatibus? Can anyone give a quote?--Siva 21:44, 25 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Right here...

"Shakespeare’s wondrous creation appears in Act 5, Scene 1: I marvel thy master hath not eaten thee for a word; for thou art not so long by the head as honorificabilitudinitatibus: thou art easier swallowed than a flap-dragon."

It means 'with honour'.

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Sorry for the unorthodox method of interjection, but I am otherwise incapable. could somebody include the number of letters (27) in the last line of the main section? I am unable to. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 146.201.164.233 (talk) 23:10, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Other anagrams for honorificabilitudinitatibus

According to Doctor Crypton, there were several other anagrams for "honorificabilitudinitatibus" that credit bacon. They include "Abi. Invit F. Bacon. Histrio Ludit" ("Begone. F. bacon has entered. The actor is playing."), "Fair Vision, Bacon built it, hid it." and "But thus I told Franiiiiii Bacon" (The six "i"'s are presumably Roman numerals for 6, thus making "Fran-Six"). Also, isn't "honorificabilitudinitatibus" an anagram for the Italian phrase for "Wherever an italian is, there honor is paid to Dante."? Orville Eastland (talk) 02:32, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

hoolly moly —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.103.181.145 (talk) 14:11, 7 May 2008 (UTC)