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Has anybody ever actually suffered from aibohphobia, or did somebody coin that word just to be cute?

Question #141002. Asked by nautilator.
Last updated Jun 30 2021.
Originally posted Jul 17 2015 9:57 PM.

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Although there may be people who suffer from a fear of palindromes, the word was invented as a witticism, similar to ailihphilia, meaning a love of palindromes. The start of each word is not actually based on a Greek or Latin word for the concept that is the subject of the fear or love, respectively.

link https://wordworry.wordpress.com/2012/08/28/aibohphobia
link https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2213



Response last updated by gtho4 on Jun 30 2021.
Jul 17 2015, 10:05 PM
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