Say what?! This was a lead-in to an on-line article today, which further into it "explains": The illness Is called friggatriskaidekaphobia. (We couldn’t make that up.)
Thanks to tsuwm for getting me to learn this word--the real one, that is.
friggatriskaidekaphobia
I've always preferred paraskevatriskaidekaphobia.
....well then you'll be please to hear in 13 more weeks it comes around again.
friggatriskaidekaphobia
I've always preferred paraskevatriskaidekaphobia.
Right. Let's keep our phobiae free from non-Hellenic roots.
Right. Let's keep our phobiae free from non-Hellenic roots.
Not quite. I just prefer the sound of it. No accounting for taste. It was also the first term for it I ran across. It is nice to have polysyllabic synonyms, though.
"Frigga-triska-ideka-phobia is an unreasonable fear of Friday-the-Thirteenth."
What would be a reasonable fear in this case...