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Nonplussed. Its derivation is somewhat logical but appearance is lunatic.
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Arachibutyrophobia
Ha ha! I had to google that! It's right off the prepostrometer!
Thorry to dithagree with thew. It ith not prepothterouth.
Though it does remind me of the story of the story of the preacher who, during a sermon, said, "And those of you who are adulterers, may your tongue queave to the woof of youh mouf."
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Arachibutyrophobia.
Why would anybody fear peanut butter?
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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Teenager with peanut allergy dies after a kiss. A Quebec teenager with a peanut allergy has died after kissing her boyfriend who had eaten a peanut butter sandwich hours earlier. Nov. 26 2005 Link
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What does peanut butter have to do with spiders?
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Teenager with peanut allergy dies after a kiss. A Quebec teenager with a peanut allergy has died after kissing her boyfriend who had eaten a peanut butter sandwich hours earlier. Nov. 26 2005 Link
Seriousness of peanut allergies aside, I remember that this story was debunked. It was determined that she didn't die of the peanut allergy. I can't find a reference to it right quick, though.
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What does peanut butter have to do with spiders?
arachi, not arachNi..
(I had the some wonder.)
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What does peanut butter have to do with spiders?
They share quite a few letters in Greek? The genus name for peanut is arachis (from Greek arakhis (alternate arakis) 'a kind of leguminous plant, chickling', diminutive of arakos 'legume'. Spider in Greek is arakhne. The real question, which I neglected to ask, is why the English word is incorrectly formed. The oblique cases of arakhis are formed from the stem arakhid- (e.g., the genitive is arakhidos), so the term is more pedantically formed as arachidobutyrophobia.
Full disclosure: I am not now, nor have I ever been, allergic to or afraid of peanut butter, but I now know that some people are either one or the other or both.
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Seriousness of peanut allergies aside, I remember that this story was debunked. It was determined that she didn't die of the peanut allergy. I can't find a reference to it right quick, though.
I thought peanut allergies could be fatal. I had an old flatmate who had one. He refused to be in the same room as peanuts and wore his medication in a tiny capsule around his neck at all times. He told us he'd been rushed to hospital once after eating something with peanuts in it and that it was a life or death situation.
If that's correct, a peanut butter kiss of death is not impossible, is it?
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