Mouthful

A “mouthful” is a word or phrase that is difficult to pronounce or that has a lot of syllables.

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A “mouthful” is a word or phrase that is difficult to pronounce or that has a lot of syllables. A new species of dinosaur was officially classified and named the “Australotitan cooperensis.” If its name is a “mouthful,” or if its name is difficult to pronounce, we can call this dinosaur by its nickname – “Cooper,” named after Cooper Creek, near the town where its fossils were discovered. The law firm goes by “JC&A” because “Johnson, Clover, and Associates” is a mouthful.

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