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WARNING: food-related
do you know these?
aversion to food - sitiophobia
fear of mushrooms - mycophobia
dread of dinner parties - deipnophobia
fear of conversation at dinner - deipnosophobia
fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth - arachibutyrophobia
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tsuwm: Talk about crossing threads!! I was posting the peanut butter phobia on the turkey thread and just came across it here, too. Great minds think alike! I can hear you groaning! Poor, tsuwm! I'm just your classic bathophobic.
Bathophobically yours,
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Were there any other words for royal bastards?
Pretender.
Clarification is futile,
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Were there any other words for royal bastards?Sir, if they happen to become king. One really famous one was William the Conqueror. His mother was the daughter of a tanner of Falaise. "Fitz" became handed down as part of "ordinary" surnames, and its original meaning fell out of use. Generally in later centuries the bastard child simply took the mother's name. In some (many?) cases, the family was elevated in status by the royal getter of the bastards. Which made him or her, I suppose, a right royal bastard. Many of today's better known aristocratic families started that way ... 
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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WW-- Fitzroy-- comes to mind..
and yes whitman, Fitz has become an associated with irish names.. the pretty young thing entertains the king.. an then get pregnant.. bad form to have unwed mothers about -- retire them to the country.. or better yet, out of the country.. some nice rural estate in ireland.. the son (or daughter) raised far from court has less of chance of attemping to set himself up as a contender to the throne. ireland was far away.. and a good place if you where a king, to banish a former mistress to!
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One really famous one was William the Conqueror. His mother was the daughter of a tanner of Falaise.
Was Bill the Conqueror's mother's family the one that started the Samsonite suitcase industry?
Oh, never mind. Wrong family. I'm thinking of the Tanners of Valise.
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"redactophobia" - ( ) A fear of editing or of editors"
What sayest thou, O High Priestess wow!?
The Good Sisters used to say "If you can't be good for love of God then be good for fear of Him."
My version is "If you won't take the time to write well for love of language, write well for fear of the Editor."
Old newspaper saying : "The reason editor has a capital E is the same reason God has a capital G."
OK Whit?
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It seems to me that editors are a subset of critics. Years ago I read an essay by George Jean Nathan in ;which he said: "Critics are like eunuchs, they can tell you how, but they can't do it themselves." The one exception I can think of was James A. Michener, who was an editor with Saturday Evening Post before he wrote Tales of the South Pacific.
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OK Whit?Yes, O " G"reat " W"ow, I shudder before you! (and your slashing pen!) 
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Michener was an editor?...what, did he E-X-P-A-N-D all the work he saw!!? 
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