How do you Know if you Have It?

From Jade Walker: Writing prompt: Make up a new phobia.

I found The Phobia List so you can check what is already there. A lot are taken. I think to create a new one you have to be really way far out there. In fact, you probably shouldn’t check your ideas off against this list. It’s too likely it will already be there. With Wiktionary you can find the latiny form for your fear word. (Latiny isn’t really a word, but it communicates well in this instance).

• Dracophobia – The fear of dragons. (It actually wasn’t on the list, imagine that!)
• Grammarphobia – The fear of using (or not using) proper grammar.
• Penophobia – The fear of modern pens versus old fashioned quills.
• Caffephobia – Fear of coffee.
• Lattephobia – Fear of lattes. (Of course).

Now that I’ve begun to scare you… here are some real phobias (related to writing) which I found on the list:

• Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia- Fear of long words.
• Sesquipedalophobia- Fear of long words.
• Logophobia- Fear of words.
• Verbophobia- Fear of words.
• Onomatophobia- Fear of hearing a certain word or of names.
• Graphophobia- Fear of writing or handwriting.
• Scriptophobia- Fear of writing in public.
• Xenoglossophobia- Fear of foreign languages.
• Papyrophobia- Fear of paper.
• Bibliophobia- Fear of books.

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