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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 3 of 3 1 2 3 Re: scrubbed olly #191989 07/21/10 07:09 AM Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 5,295 Netherlands, the Hague BranShea Carpal Tunnel BranShea Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 5,295 Netherlands, the Hague Hahaha, great list! (you don't know you got it till you see it) misverbophobia?- the fear of saying the wrong word? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: scrubbed BranShea #191997 07/21/10 03:12 PM Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 9,918 Likes: 2 Land of the Flat Water LukeJavan8 Carpal Tunnel LukeJavan8 Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 9,918 Likes: 2 Land of the Flat Water I like the one about the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth: I'm not even going to try to type it. ----please, draw me a sheep---- Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: scrubbed LukeJavan8 #192002 07/22/10 01:34 AM Joined: Jun 2000 Posts: 724 Avy old hand Avy old hand Joined: Jun 2000 Posts: 724 Crazy site. Thanks olly. I enjoyed reading it. Lot of stuff on it. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: scrubbed olly #192174 07/31/10 02:58 PM Joined: Feb 2010 Posts: 655 Florida, USA beck123 addict beck123 addict Joined: Feb 2010 Posts: 655 Florida, USA "Agliophobia" is on that list as "fear of pain," but isn't the root word for pain "algia" vice "aglia?" "Agliophobia" sounds more like an Italian's fear of garlic (and what are the odds of that?) Fear of garlic, BTW, is given in the list as "Alliumphobia," which to me is a clumsy, cacaphonic contruction. I recommend "alliophobia" as a more euphonic word. "I don't know which is worse: ignorance or apathy. And, frankly, I don't care." - Anonymous Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: scrubbed beck123 #192175 07/31/10 03:05 PM Joined: Feb 2010 Posts: 655 Florida, USA beck123 addict beck123 addict Joined: Feb 2010 Posts: 655 Florida, USA At work on Thursday I received a review of a lengthy draft document from a colleague who had spent, in his words, "several weeks" - 25 or so, by my count - making innumerable changes that were in almost every case a change from correct grammar and punctuation to incorrect. A friend and I were looking for a word that means "fear of proper grammar" or "fear of proper punctuation." Rather than look through the 92,000 definitions on the list provided above, I offer this question to the forum. We came up with the converse term "dysgrammophilia," which implies "eugrammophobia," but we made those up. "I don't know which is worse: ignorance or apathy. And, frankly, I don't care." - Anonymous Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Page 3 of 3 1 2 3 Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary Forum Statistics Forums16 Topics13,913 Posts229,344 Members9,182 Most Online3,341 Dec 9th, 2011 Newest Members Ineffable, ddrinnan, TRIALNERRA, befuddledmind, KILL_YOUR_SUV 9,182 Registered Users Who's Online Now 0 members (), 782 guests, and 2 robots. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters(30 Days) wofahulicodoc 29 A C Bowden 20 LukeJavan8 2 ddrinnan 1 Top Posters wwh 13,858 Faldage 13,803 Jackie 11,613 wofahulicodoc 10,546 tsuwm 10,542 LukeJavan8 9,918 Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210 AnnaStrophic 6,511 Wordwind 6,296 of troy 5,400

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