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"Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" is a song from the 1964 Disney musical film ''Mary Poppins''. The song was written by the Sherman Brothers, and sung by Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke. It also appears in the stage show version. Because ''Mary Poppins'' was a period piece set in 1910, songs that sounded similar to songs of the period were wanted.〔The Making of Mary Poppins, 2004〕 The movie version finished at #36 in AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs survey of top tunes in American cinema. == Origin and meaning == According to Richard M. Sherman, co-writer of the song with his brother, Robert, the word was one that the two knew in their youth. In an episode of the ''Disney Family Album'' featuring the story of the brother's careers, Richard Sherman stated, "we remembered this wonderful word from our childhood". In a 2007 interview, Sherman indicated that the final version of the word was produced by the two brothers over the course of two weeks during the songwriting process, indicating only that the origins of the word were in their memories of creating double-talk words in their childhood.〔(LAist Interview: Richard M. Sherman, November 2, 2007 )〕 The roots of the word have been defined〔by Richard Lederer in his book ''Crazy English''〕 as follows: super- "above", cali- "beauty", fragilistic- "delicate", expiali- "to atone", and -docious "educable", with the sum of these parts signifying roughly "Atoning for educability through delicate beauty." According to the film, it is defined as "something to say when you have nothing to say". Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious was first added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 1986.〔http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/194228〕 A well known feghoot indirectly makes reference to this word, by affirming that Mahatma Gandhi was a "super calloused fragile mystic hexed by halitosis".〔University of Oregon – Peter B Gilkey: (Ten puns )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「supercalifragilisticexpialidocious」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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