That's what I'm talking about. You know how to make a follower of Cthulhu feel loved.

I blame the "sudden-awareness" syndrome. When you notice a word or action gets more and more use simply because there's a catalizer that triggered your particular attention or the collective attention towards it.

Amazing that not even one link on google for "ginormous" on the first page was for a porn-site or Viagra-advertisement...

Anyway, seeing as I'm from the Netherlands you don't hear many of those words...

Yep, I learned a bunch of words I had never heard of before in Political Science and started hearing them every time I turned on the news. I was all like "hey I are teh smart!"

Sounds similar to the way the word ridonculous is spreading. I'm not exactly sure on the derivation of that word, but it means really ridiculous. That word hasn't spread as much as ginormous, but it's getting there.

Another word spreading around my friend's school is blumb. It's dumb, because it mans dumb. But come on, blumb. That has got to be the lamest word invented in all of the history of english. On top of that, my friend uses it too. Which is really annoying. "Man, that is soooooooooo friggin blumb", or "Yo man, dis test is blumb'.

I personally find supercalfragilisticexpialidocious to be far more annoying than blumb.

Yeah, but he now uses it in almost every sentance. And other people use it too. This is all the Animal lovers fault. They huddle around during lunch and come up with words like blumb, reharted, deslavencho (whatever the hell that means) and other crap. Now more people are doing it. Soon, the whole school will be infested and no normality will be safe. That really sucks. And I bet no one knows the chemical composition of methionylglutaminylarginyltyrosylglutamylserylleuc yl phenylalanylalanylglutaminylleucyllysylglutamylarg inyl lysylglutamylglycylalanylphenylalanylvalylprolylph enyl alanylvalylthreonylleucylglycylaspartylprolylglycy lisol eucylglutamylglutaminylserylleucyllysylisoleucylas partyl threonylleucylisoleucylglutamylalanylglycylalanyla spartyl alanylleucylglutamylleucylglycylisoleucylprolylphe nyl alanylserylaspartylprolylleucylalanylaspartylglycy lprolyl threonylisoleucylglutaminylasparaginylalanylthreon ylleucyl arginylalanylphenylalanylalanylalanylglycylvalylth reonyl prolylalanylglutaminylcysteinylphenylalanylglutamy l methionylleucylalanylleucylisoleucylarginylglutami nyllysyl histidylprolylthreonylisoleucylprolylisoleucylglyc ylleucyl leucylmethionyltyrosylalanylasparaginylleucylvalyl phenyl alanylasparaginyllysylglycylisoleucylaspartylgluta mylphenyl alanyltyrosylalanylglutaminylcysteinylglutamyllysy lvalyl glycylvalylaspartylserylvalylleucylvalylalanylaspa rtylvalyl prolylvalylglutaminylglutamylserylalanylprolylphen ylalanyl arginylglutaminylalanylalanylleucylarginylhistidyl asparaginyl valylalanylprolylisoleucylphenylalanylisoleucylcys teinyl prolylprolylaspartylalanylaspartylaspartylaspartyl leucyl leucylarginylglutaminylisoleucylalanylseryltyrosyl glycyl arginylglycyltyrosylthreonyltyrosylleucylleucylser ylarginyl alanylglycylvalylthreonylglycylalanylglutamylaspar aginyl arginylalanylalanylleucylprolylleucylasparaginylhi stidyl leucylvalylalanyllysylleucyllysylglutamyltyrosylas paraginyl alanylalanylprolylprolylleucylglutaminylglycylphen ylalanyl glycylisoleucylserylalanylprolylaspartylglutaminyl valyllysyl alanylalanylisoleucylaspartylalanylglycylalanylala nylglycyl alanylisoleucylserylglycylserylalanylisoleucylvaly llysylisol eucylisoleucylglutamylglutaminylhistidylasparaginy lisoleucyl glutamylprolylglutamyllysylmethionylleucylalanylal anylleucyl lysylvalylphenylalanylvalylglutaminylprolylmethion yllysyl alanylalanylthreonylarginylserine. I'll give a hint, it has 267 amino acids. by the way, this is a real chemical. :p

Is it really? What foods or substances can you find it in?

I think someone made that up. Pneumonomicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is the longest word in the English language.