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", expeali- "to atone", and docious- "educable", with the sum of these parts signifying roughly "Atoning for educatability through delicate beauty." This explication of its connotations suits the nature of fictional Mary Poppins, who presents herself as both extremely beautiful and also supremely intelligent and capable of great achievements.[citations 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'.
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.
[edit] 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.[citations 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.[citations needed] In addition, they spelled and sang each letter of the famous tongue twister, similar to "Do-Re-Mi" from The Sound of Music.
Ach tak, za wszytko-wiedzącą Wikipedią
najbardziej podoba mi się wytłumaczenie, żeby powiedziec to, kiedy się nie wie co powiedziec
i do tego jaką ładną angielszczyzną... a teraz nam szybciutko przetłumac :p
