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Is there a word for someone who is interested and knowledgeable about tying knots?
My daughter suggests Knot Nerd but that seems somewhat perjorative!
However her inlaws are Greek. Perhaps if I found the Greek for knot and put ist on the end it would be correct.
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Welcome, OT! Well--I looked up the origin of knot, thinking you might be able to add ...phile onto the end of a root and get something at least semi-meaningful, but here's what I found at Dictionary.com:
Origin:
bef. 1000; (n.) ME knot ( te ), OE cnotta; c. D knot, G knoten to knit; (v.) ME, deriv. of the n.
None of the synonyms for knot jumped out at me as good candidates, either. Knot nerd sounds fine to me!
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One Greek word for 'knot' is στραγγαλις (strangalis, strangalidos), but the Latin word for knot is nodus. So, I guess a strangalidophile or strangalidolog(ue) might do.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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strangalidophile Eek--sounds like a murderer! 
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I'm thinking.....boyscout.
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I'm thinking.....boyscout. now keep it clean, blue eyes! ;¬ )
formerly known as etaoin...
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a Gordian is "one skilled in tying intricate knots", according to the OED, and a knotter is simply "one who knots or ties knots".
but I know, not exactly what you're looking for..
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I'm thinking.....boyscout. now keep it clean, blue eyes! ;¬ ) I'm not surprised you avoided saying, "now don't be naughty!"
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formerly known as etaoin...
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I see Knotology has been pilfered by the paper folders 
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those folks were girding up loins (and puring them) to take knotology back. then along came some ruly (crossthreading) Latinist and now they're nodologists?!
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Or, Nodeologists as referenced later in the thread. But haven't they mixed the Greek with the Latin?
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Nodeologists as referenced later in the thread. But haven't they mixed the Greek with the Latin?
Even the Greeks and the Romans did that, too. What's wrong with a little mixology?
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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What's wrong with a little mixology?
Nothing I suppose. It adds flavour.
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