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Mrs. Byrne includes "rhytiphobia n. -- a neurotic preoccupation with facial wrinkles."
I checked the term out on OneLook®Dictionaries, and only the Grandiloquent Dictionary entry came up, along with:
"redactophobia - ( ) A fear of editing or of editors"
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"regiphobia - ( ) A fear of a king or kings"...
So, I went back to Mrs. Byrne, who provided this on kings:
"fitz n. -- a twelfth-century patronymic for royal bastards"
...so that raises a question to wrinkle out, if you don't have wrinkle phobias, what would be the patronymics for royal bastards from other centuries? Or: why is a royal bastard a fitz specifically in the 12th century?
Back to my in-depth research on babyroussas,
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Was the name of JFK's Presidential yacht, and it brings to mind the story of how we knew what clothes to put on in the late fall when I lived on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.
Kennedy and his entourage were frequent visitors to those waters, and they were frequent hunters of the wildfowl that lived in the marshes. But there was no refrigerator on board, so they never took game unless it was going to be cold enough that they could hang the ducks out to keep cool naturally. When we heard their guns we knew it was time to put away the cutoffs and tee-shirts. If the Fitz shoots, wear knits.
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it appears that, once again, Mrs. B. has fallen victim to [benefit of doubt] space limitations:
[AF. spelling of OF. fiz (pronounced fits):—earlier filz:—Lat. filius son.
The form is due to the phonetic law in OF. that a palatalized l caused a succeeding s to become ts (written z).]
The Anglo-French word for ‘son’; chiefly Hist. in patronymic designations, in which it was followed by the name of a parent in the uninflected genitive. Some of these survive as surnames, e.g. Fitzherbert, Fitzwilliam, etc.; in later times new surnames of the kind have been given to the illegitimate children of royal princes. †Also in 12–15th c. used occas. in adopted AF. phrases, beau fitz = ‘fair son’; fiz a putain = ‘whoreson’.
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Is that boat the inspiration for the popular song lyrics:
Like a Fitz over troubled waters, I will lay on me down...? down, fluffy feathers here used in ski jackets
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No, it's actually about slackers:
I will lay on me duff.
And I will swear at anyone who calls me a good egg.
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Dear WW: here a a couple phobias I hadn't heard recently:
Now I'll bet all of you are wondering the same thing- What the hell do those things mean? Well, I'll tell you. Bear in mind that these all start with "fear of". Anuptaphobia- remaining single; Blennophobia- slime; Ecophobia- home; Laliophobia- speaking; Lilapsophobia- tornadoes; Mellisophobia- bees; Rhytiphobia- getting wrinkles; Septophobia- decaying matter; Stygiophobia- Hell; Phobophobia- fear itself.
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wwh: Have I got a list for all of us! Try this link and tread it with great trepidation, preferably on a dark and stormy night: http://www.phobialist.com/index.htmlOne phobia we don't have to concern ourselves with on WAD is Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia- Fear of long words. And, Keiva, I did not make this up! Best regards, Dub PS: Were there any other words for royal bastards?
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"redactophobia" - ( ) A fear of editing or of editors"What sayest thou, O High Priestess wow!?  I might admit to being a redactaphobe, but fear and loathing aren't quite the same thing. I hope you wrote good leads, wow. 
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The Anglo-French word for ‘son’
I find this interesting, because mostly all the people with "fitz" surnames I've known have been Irish...Fitzpatrick, Fitzsimmons, Fitzgerald, etc. So I always assumed it was a Celtic appellation.
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The fils/fitz connection is an interesting one.
Thank goodness Fitzpatrick, Fitzwilliam, and gang don't mean RoyalbastardofPatrick, RoyalbastardofWilliam, etc.--there sure would be a world of royal bastardry running rampant!
Clarification is all,
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