Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia
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Hello to new friends! I would give you a long summary of who I am
and such, but I'm really bad at that sort of compression. Let's
just say I'm American, live in the frigid Northeast and have a
wonderful husband whose initials will vary between DH (Dear, Dastardly,
Devoted, etc. Husband) and GS (Good Soul) as well as a very young son
whom I call Babe (who has just come down with chickenpox 3 weeks before
his vaccination, dammit!).
Storywise, I am posting (pending beta approval) an SS/HG/RL marriage law fic (really, it's a parody) titled Marry a Choice. I'm proud of it. It's very silly, in a black, twisted, melodramatic kind of way. I'm also writing the same story from Snape's POV and posting here under Snape's Journal. We'll see if other stories pop up as the muse strikes.
Basic, really.
The five most common phobias are:
1. Fear of snakes (ophidiophobia)
2. Fear of giving a speech (glossophobia)
3. Fear of heights (acrophobia)
4. Fear of rodents (musophobia)
5. Fear of flying (aviophobia)
Then there's:
Papaphobia—fear of the pope.
Scorodophobia—fear of garlic.
Pteronophobia—fear of being tickled with feathers.
Ranidaphobia—fear of frogs.
Philematophobia—fear of kissing.
Aulophobia—fear of flutes.
Ostraconophobia—fear of shellfish.
Graphophobia—fear of handwriting.
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia—fear of long words (seriously).
Blennophobia—fear of slime.
Gerontophobia—fear of old people.
Peladophobia—fear of bald people.
Geropeladophobia—fear of old, bald people.
Phobophobia—fear of developing a fear.
People in New England obviously suffer from gephyrophobia - fear of bridges, judging by the lack of bridges to cross the numerous rivers and streams. As a side note, here's the spellchecker's suggestions for the phobias listed.
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Snape's Journal
Dec. 14th, 1997
Joy to the World, the end is nigh.
We're supposed to attack Hogwarts on Christmas Eve. The Dark Lord is completely lacking in the sense of humor department, and you'd think that by now I would know better than to snicker in front of him. He always gets so defensive.
Bloody ingrate.
/entry
Storywise, I am posting (pending beta approval) an SS/HG/RL marriage law fic (really, it's a parody) titled Marry a Choice. I'm proud of it. It's very silly, in a black, twisted, melodramatic kind of way. I'm also writing the same story from Snape's POV and posting here under Snape's Journal. We'll see if other stories pop up as the muse strikes.
Basic, really.
The five most common phobias are:
1. Fear of snakes (ophidiophobia)
2. Fear of giving a speech (glossophobia)
3. Fear of heights (acrophobia)
4. Fear of rodents (musophobia)
5. Fear of flying (aviophobia)
Then there's:
Papaphobia—fear of the pope.
Scorodophobia—fear of garlic.
Pteronophobia—fear of being tickled with feathers.
Ranidaphobia—fear of frogs.
Philematophobia—fear of kissing.
Aulophobia—fear of flutes.
Ostraconophobia—fear of shellfish.
Graphophobia—fear of handwriting.
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia—fear of long words (seriously).
Blennophobia—fear of slime.
Gerontophobia—fear of old people.
Peladophobia—fear of bald people.
Geropeladophobia—fear of old, bald people.
Phobophobia—fear of developing a fear.
People in New England obviously suffer from gephyrophobia - fear of bridges, judging by the lack of bridges to cross the numerous rivers and streams. As a side note, here's the spellchecker's suggestions for the phobias listed.
ophidiophobia | overdub, affidavit, adverb |
glossophobia | glassful, classifies, classify, classifier, classifiable, classified, classifiers, classifier's |
musophobia | Mesabi, misfit, massif, missive, missives, massifs, misfile, misfire, massive, missive's, massif's |
aviophobia | ergophobia, Aviva, Avivah, Avivah's, Aviv, Aviv's, Aviva's |
Papaphobia | Paperboy, Popovers, Popover, Popover's |
Scorodophobia | Secretive, Secretively |
Ranidaphobia | Roundoff, Reinterview, Reinterview's |
Aulophobia | Ergophobia, Allophone, Alphas, Alpha, Alpha's, Alibi, Alphabet, Alphecca, Alba, Alvinia |
Gerontophobia | Gerundive, Gerundive's, Grandfather |
Peladophobia | Platform, Palliative, Plateful, Palliatives, Platteville, Pollutive, Palliatively |
Phobophobia | Fiberfill It also had a problem with Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia, but surprisingly didn't have any suggestions. Wonder why? |
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Snape's Journal
Dec. 14th, 1997
Joy to the World, the end is nigh.
We're supposed to attack Hogwarts on Christmas Eve. The Dark Lord is completely lacking in the sense of humor department, and you'd think that by now I would know better than to snicker in front of him. He always gets so defensive.
Bloody ingrate.
/entry
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Date: 2005-10-26 10:24 pm (UTC)I wonder if there is a word for the phobia of the fear of squishing spiders lest you hear them crunch!? I have that one bad! I swear I have to leave the room if someone wants to squish a spider because I will almost throw-up from the sound they make, and if by some horrible chance I have to do it, I either get some toilet paper and flush 'em down the toilet, or get something crackly to squish them with so I can't hear the sound! Yes, I do know I'm very weird! LOL!
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Date: 2005-10-27 04:44 am (UTC)I don't know if there's a phobia name for that, but if there is, I have a mild case of it as well, only it extends to all creepy crawlies. Yech, indeed! I tried googling "fear of straightforward routes," but came up negative, which is too bad. That's the best way to describe New England's road system.
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Date: 2005-10-27 09:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-27 08:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-27 01:31 am (UTC)Too bad about your son. With so many kids vaccinated these days, I didn't even know kids were coming down with real cases of chicken pox. (I vaguely remember having it when very young; I seem to recall being kept in a darkened room because there was a danger to your eyes with too much light (?); I'm not even sure if that's factual or one of the myths of my mother's generation.) Anyway, I hope Babe has a mild case and recovers quickly, for both your sakes.
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Date: 2005-10-27 04:54 am (UTC)I was hoping Babe wouldn't get infected, especially as he was SO close to getting his vaccination. Sigh. I read up on CP a little tonight and the darkened room thing might stem from a mixup of cause and effect. You can become sensitive to light, but that's a sign of serious complications afoot (like encephilitis (sp)), so the logic was probably: avoid the light, and you avoid the complications... right?
It's too soon to say, but it looks like he might have a mild case. I'm knocking on wood. Thanks!
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Date: 2005-10-27 03:00 am (UTC)With that said, I would think that aracnophobia (I'm too lazy for correct spelling) would be up in the top 5. I'm terrified, deathly, of spiders. They're horrible!
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Date: 2005-10-27 05:02 am (UTC)I think they replaced aracnophobia with aviophobia, myself. I think more people are willing to admit they're afraid of flying now because it's a fear validated by the media, whereas being afraid of spiders is just silly, right? Live in Australia for any amount of time, though, and you learn to respect and fear spiders as much as snakes and crocs! That continent has some scary life on it!
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Date: 2005-10-28 10:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-27 08:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-27 08:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-27 08:50 pm (UTC)Anyway, I just wanted to introduce myself and invite you over to read my handful of incredibly boring LJ entries if you like - maybe we have even more in common...
*waves*
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Date: 2005-10-27 09:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-28 08:28 pm (UTC)*friends back*