phonophobia – fear of your own voice
eisotrophobia – fear of seeing yourself in the mirror
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Mighty Girl 
Why spend $9 on a horror movie when you can stand in front of a looking glass and recite the Gettysburg Address?
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Finally an unpronouncable name for my fear! What is the name for a fear of trying to pronounce fear names?
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Anything with a name in Greek can have the word phobia tacked onto it. If there was a word for blog in Greek there would be a technical sounding name for fear of blogs… which wouldn’t mean that fear existed.
PS. I love this blog. I just never find ‘zany’ phobia lists interesting.
PPS. Mirrors in the dark are pretty sketchy.
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I tried to Google the mirror fear but it appears it’s eisotrophobia, with an R.
My favorite is Aibohpphobia, which is a fear of palindromes.
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is there turkeyneckaphobia? ’cause i think i have it.
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It depends. Is there a greek word for turkeyneck?
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what’s the phobia of phobias? phobiaphobia? i now have a name for my band!
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my personal favorite is Billy Bob Thornton’s actual phobia: the fear of antique furniture (which the writers of the movie Bandits worked into the script for his character).
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just to add to the list, some newly discovered favorites:
Pentheraphobia – fear of your mother-in-law
Pteronophobia – fear of being tickled by feathers
Arachibutyrophobia – fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth
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you are being amputated
Apotemnophilia
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I just saw that pic of Demi when she’s naked and a thousand months pregnant. Clearly she did not suffer from this phobia …
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What happens when you have both fears? You look in the mirror arnd scream and your scream just causes you to scream louder…I assume the logical course is you continually pass out from fright.
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“phonophobia – fear of your own voice
eisotophobia – fear of seeing yourself in the mirror”
Put them together and that spells phonoeisOH-NObia, or the fear of mouthing off to your own reflection in an Old Navy dressing room.
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I have both of those phobias one week out of the month.. PMS.
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you realize, of course, that long silences suggest that your inside baby is now an outside baby?
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I want to buy your book (from you, autographed and caressed and all that) – but I get a lot of weird emails from PayPal and don’t trust their site… is there any way I can purchase the book from you without going through PayPal?
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Just started to check out the March 2007 issue of Parenting and saw that MightyGoods.com got a great review:
A Site We Love
Looking for the perfect gift for a friend, your child, or yourself? Head to MightyGoods.com, a great shopping blog that features fresh finds from the web. Selections–such as self-watering flowerpot, window paints for kids, and lemon olive oil–range from cheap to splurge-worthy and from unique to just darn cute. Categories include gadgets, fashion, food, kids, and more.
Wonder if they know you’ll be joining the clan of mommas very soon or if it’s just a very cool coincidence?!?
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I couldn’t find a place to comment on the cute pix on DY. I wanted to protest that you kids of the nineties didn’t have nearly embarrassing enough hairstyles. Hopefully, it will become more awful over time.
xo
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