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How many songs from Mary Poppins can you sing?
Why, there's "Let's Go Fly a Kite," which was the one that brought this to my attention on Saturday. And "A Spoonful of Sugar." And "Chim Chim Cher-ee."
And "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious," of course.
"If I Were a Rich Man" isn't from Mary Poppins like I thought. It's from Fiddler on the Roof. But I bet you already knew that.
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Proposed Interstate 905 in Seattle
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4 comments:
Correct me if I am wrong, but I always thought it was spelled, "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious." Oddly, when she says it backwards, it is mostly reversing the syllables, not letter by letter, since she sings "dociousaliexpilisticfragicalirepus."
Typo. Sorry. I'll correct it.
That's not reversing syllables, but pairs of syllables. "Docious," "ali," "expi," "listic," "fragi," and "cali" are all two syllables. I wonder why they changed "super" to "repus."
Just to make it *sound* like they spelled it backwards.
Wikipedia uses both your original spelling (expe) and mine (expi). They also spell the last syllable of the backwards version differently (rupus), which makes no sense. They also mention that the musical version of Mary Poppins has the letters strictly reversed: suoicodilaipxecitsiligarfilacrepus. Pronounce that!
Sadly I can sing all Fiddler on the Roof songs. I'm a huge fan of that movie. I can probably belt out a few Mary Poppins tunes.
I'm not gay.
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