Feature & Follow (2)

Okay, another week has gone by, I'll have a 4-day-weekend, so you can expect to see a couple of reviews very soon. Anyway, I am glad that I got to meet many fellow bloggers last week through the event, so I'll definitely be doing this regularly, so now, let's answer the question...

Q: What is the BIGGEST word you've seen used in a book lately - that made you stop and look it up? Might as well leave the definition & book too.

Now THAT is a good question, because I honestly don't know how to answer it...

    I started reading English books (my first language is NOT English) when I was 13 years old. At first, of course, I had no idea what the book was saying, it all just seemed gibberish to me, I would actually check the dictionary at that time, because I thought if I know the words I'd know the meaning of a sentence (of course that's not the case, there are much more than knowing the words to actually read and understand a book, I know that now). However, even though I'd check the meaning of a word, I have never actually written them down, I was too confident in my own memory, and needless to say, I ended up checking the same word a few times before I could actually remember it. As time went on, my vocabulary expanded, and I now have a much wider vocabulary than my peers, however, I still stumble upon words I don't know time to times, and when that happened, I usually just skip it, I am pretty sure many people do that. So, I actually haven't checked the dictionary for a long time, but I did shortly kept a book which I wrote SOME of the words that I saw, not just books, and I'll find the weirdest one there for you...

    AHA! okay, so tell me, what does "dolichocephalic" means? Okay, I am the one that is supposed to tell you, so, um, I checked on dictionary.com and the meaning is "long-headed"... Did you ever have a moment when you checked the meaning of a word but didn't even know what the meaning means? Yeah, I am in that kind of moment, what do you mean by long-headed? Isn't there a normal length for how long your face is? How long IS long headed and what does the word do? You don't go up to people and say, "Hi, I'm Ally, I am dolichocephalic so don't stare at my head please." Really?

    Anyway, this is not from a book, I am not even sure where I picked up the word, it doesn't even look like a SAT word, so... That's it, feel free comment below so I can learn some new words and also, leave me the link of your blog and I'll make sure to follow you! :)

P.S. Ever since my triumphant at setting up the GFC, I have also added Linky, so now you have three widgets to choose, Networked Blogs, GFC and Linky, choose anyone that you want, of course, I would appreciate you to follow more than one, but, I am just happy to gain followers and to know people read my blog :) And pop in at Twitter to chat with me! I'm @AllysonRida