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