Trivia Time: Where did the word supercalifragilisticexpialidocious come from?

Trivia Time: Where did the word supercalifragilisticexpialidocious come from?

Did you answer Mary Poppins?

Great guess.
But wrong.

Mary Poppins made the word famous.
She didn’t create it.
And of course by ‘she’, I mean The Walt Disney Company.

The earliest known use showed up more than 30 years earlier, in the 1930s.
Playful, nonsense slang for something “extraordinary.”

But Mary Poppins gets the credit.

This is how it usually works.

It’s the power law.
A small number of moments capture a outsized share of attention.

One film.
One company.
Nearly all the mindshare (and the revenue).

Creation counts for something.
Distribution matters most.

Love it or hate it, the pattern holds.

Just ask Nikola Tesla, James Watt, and Frisbee Pie Company.