'Of course', says
Mary Poppins,
smugly in the middle of one of the
instrumental bits of the
song, 'you can say it backwards which is dociousaliexpilisticfragicalirepus'. Now, I was quite obsessive as a child, and, impressed with the woman's
skill and
style, I learnt this, carefully and diligently so that I could show off at parties (yes - a sad life, I know, I know). But... and this is the real
stinker... it's not! Because, dociousaliexpilisticfragicalirepus backwards is not supercalifragilisticexpialidocious... in fact it's superilacigarfcitsilipxeilasuoicod.
I felt so cheated! For years I'd been showing off at parties and had, in fact, been perpetrating a fraud. Gutted I was.
It was years before I could watch another Julie Andrews movie without scowling.