Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia

that’s crazy, I wonder if that’s real. wow..googled it and it is. that’s crazy. Ok, I researched this a little more and hippopotomonstrosesquippedalio phobia is not actually used in formal writing for the fear of long words. The actual fear of long words is simply called sesquipedalophobia (a little better). The hippopotomonstrose part is just added for irony and lends nothing extra to the meaning of the smaller word.