Monday, October 31, 2016

logophobia | Word of the Day

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Oct. 31, 2016

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\law-guh-FOH-bee-uh, log-uh-\
noun
1. an obsessive fear of words.
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There is just one cure for logophobia, and that is self-scrutiny--to discover whether one's reaction to a given term when seen in a newspaper or heard from a platform is really justified by the true significance.
-- , "Logophobia," The Nation, August 23, 1919
 
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Origin of logophobia
Logophobia stems from the Greek terms lógos meaning "a word, saying, speech, discourse, thought, proportion, ratio, reckoning" and phóbos meaning "fear." It entered English in the 1920s.
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