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Originally Posted by cuervo72
You need to embiggen your vocabulary!
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It requires a noble spirit
(or an encyclopedic knowledge of The Simpsons:
Lisa the Iconoclast - Wikipedia)
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Originally Posted by wiki
The episode features two neologisms: embiggen and cromulent. [3] The showrunners asked the writers if they could come up with two words which sounded like real words, and these were what they came up with. [5] The Springfield town motto is "A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man." Schoolteacher Edna Krabappel comments that she had never heard the word embiggen until she moved to Springfield. Miss Hoover, another teacher, replies, "I don't know why; it’s a perfectly cromulent word." Later in the episode, while talking about Homer's audition for the role of town crier, Principal Skinner states, "He's embiggened that role with his cromulent performance." |
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