You want to watch out for this tomorrow.....
PS - for a hint look at the day and date ;)
What a word-monster! And It's today btw (at least in my timezone).
Well it is here too, although Jane might be nearly out of it by now ;) I think NZ is GMT+13 right now
Mine passed uneventfully :D
It's scary, I almost got what that meant just by looking at the word... I can't figure out why "para" though...
I love Latin and Greek prefixes and suffixes! They're so fun to play with!
Mine was pretty uneventful too :)
Yes, it was normal day, except the pay-check came :)
I found this at http://www.random-good-stuff.com/2007/0 ... d-phobias/ (http://www.random-good-stuff.com/2007/04/20/list-of-weird-phobias/)
QuotePteronophobia- Fear of being tickled by feathers.
Pediophobia- Fear of dolls
Rectophobia- Fear of rectum or rectal diseases.
Russophobia- Fear of Russians
Sinophobia- Fear of Chinese, Chinese culture.
Zemmiphobia- Fear of the great mole rat.
Consecotaleophobia- Fear of chopsticks.
Dendrophobia- Fear of trees.
Dextrophobia- Fear of objects at the right side of the body.
Eleutherophobia- Fear of freedom.
Epistemophobia- Fear of knowledge
Ereuthrophobia- Fear of blushing.
Euphobia- Fear of hearing good news.
Eurotophobia- Fear of female genitalia
Genuphobia- Fear of knees
Geliophobia- Fear of laughter.
Graphophobia- Fear of writing or handwriting.
Geumaphobia or Geumophobia- Fear of taste
Helminthophobia- Fear of being infested with worms.
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia- Fear of long words.
Hobophobia- Fear of bums or beggars
Hylophobia- Fear of forests.
Ithyphallophobia- Fear of seeing, thinking about or having an erect penis
Japanophobia- Fear of Japanese.
Judeophobia- Fear of Jews.
Koinoniphobia- Fear of rooms
Leprophobia or Lepraphobia- Fear of leprosy.
Leukophobia- Fear of the color white.
Levophobia- Fear of things to the left side of the body.
Linonophobia- Fear of string
Logophobia- Fear of words
Lutraphobia- Fear of otters.
Melophobia- Fear of music
Nosocomephobia- Fear of hospitals.
Oneirogmophobia- Fear of wet dreams.
Panophobia or Pantophobia- Fear of everything
Papaphobia- Fear of the Pope
"
Epistemophobia- Fear of knowledge" I'm pretty sure that's half my students...
and "
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia - Fear of long words" Do you think they're trying to be ironic?
Dendrophobia- Fear of trees.
- Welcome to Finland, the land of forests :evil:
Quote from: "Eimi"and "Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia - Fear of long words" Do you think they're trying to be ironic?
Sure looks like it to me. :geek:
Eurotophobia- Fear of female genitalia
That would be seriously counterproductive if you were female..
It wouldn't help a male, either ;)
with a list like that, I wonder how many jokes we could come up with LOL.... all SORTS of zingers popped into my head...