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Names of Phobias
Mu Beta Started conversation Mar 21, 2003
I could go around being boring on multiple threads about this, but I'll just be boring once and leave it at that.
To correctly name your phobia, the first part should always be from a Greek (preferably Ancient, but Modern as a second-best) stem, not Latin, French or any other language, otherwise it is a linguiostical nonsense.
Hence, tulipaphobia would not be correct, as all the genus names are derived from Latin.
The same applies to -ologists as well, which is why I get very annoyed with stamp-collectors who describe themselves as 'timbrologists'
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Names of Phobias
thebazil's blue period Posted Mar 21, 2003
Fair enough. Nice to have proper names for things anyway. And then people would take me seriously for a minute before i told them what it meant. 
Toulittaphobia, then? i looked it up here - http://www.translatum.gr/ - but i'm not entirely sure which part of the translation means 'tulip' and which part means, for example, 'noun' or 'evil tiger-like perennial,' as the whole thing is in greek.
Names of Phobias
Mu Beta Posted Mar 22, 2003
Aye - looks about right.
I was going to look it up online myself when I wrote post 1, but the damn website was down.
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