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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