Friday, September 25, 2009

Vocab: Phobias

Aloha Everyone,

Time for some more phobias. See if you can identify any root words in these phobias, and put them down in the Comments section. If you can come up with any more words using the roots that you have identified it would be better still.

Pogonophobia - Fear of beards.

Philemaphobia - Fear of kissing.

Ligyrophobia - Fear of loud noises.

Peladophobia - Fear of bald people.
[I hope you guys don't have this phobia. ;-)]

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia - Fear of long words.
How appropriate that the fear of long words is slightly longer than usual.

Ciao

6 comments:

  1. ny1 interested in letting me noe d pronounciation of hippopotomo.....??? ^.^

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  2. Alisha,

    Why do you require help? It is such an easy word. ;-);-)Is it not????

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  3. Kudos to Gautam Sir spending his mornings on updating such worthy stuff, while most of us are curled up in our cozy beds...

    Found a few REALLY strange phobias recently..
    Hope gautam sir doesnt mind....

    Fear of Old men: Gerontophobia
    theives: kleptophobia
    time: chronophobia
    mirrors: sectrophobia

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  4. hippo potomon stroses quip pedalio pronounce each word seprately then say it all together... you will get it right after 3-4 pronounciation. :)

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  5. Hi Akshay,

    Why would I mind? One of the reasons for archiving the material is also so that it serves as a forum for discussion.
    May more such contributions come in.

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  6. hmmm if we look for a root word then fear of fear should be phobiaophobia!! =P

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