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Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 3:17 pm
by Ruthie-Baby(old a/c)
but that's where the superstition about Fri 13th comes from, no?
Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 3:19 pm
by Jude
Ruthie-Baby wrote:but that's where the superstition about Fri 13th comes from, no?
i have no idea - it's pagan is about all I know - not that it means much to me - i usually don't even realise - I was just looking up at my calendar above the pc - and thought I was a week ahead already!
Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 3:21 pm
by Ruthie-Baby(old a/c)
definately to do with the Knights Templar, who were anything but pagan I think, ubt I might have got the year wrong.
If my memory serves me well, and usually it doesn't (probably beer related) I think it was October, too!
Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 3:27 pm
by Great Plum
I don't think the Knights Templar were around then...
Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 3:29 pm
by Ruthie-Baby(old a/c)
OK. October 13th, which was a Friday and the year had an eight in it.
that much I know.
Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 3:35 pm
by Richard Ruck
Your word for the coming week, then: Paraskavedekatriaphobia
(Fear of Friday 13th, in case you were wanting to know.......)
Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 3:38 pm
by Ruthie-Baby(old a/c)
that's a stupid word
Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 3:39 pm
by Richard Ruck
Ruthie-Baby wrote:that's a stupid word
........but concise! Well, a bit long, perhaps.......
Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 3:43 pm
by Great Plum
Looks Greek to me!
Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 3:44 pm
by Ruthie-Baby(old a/c)
yeah but no one's really scared of it so there's no need to try and remember to spell it... surely?
it must be a 'copy and paste' only sort of a word, who would bother??
Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 3:50 pm
by Richard Ruck
Ruthie-Baby wrote:yeah but no one's really scared of it so there's no need to try and remember to spell it... surely?
it must be a 'copy and paste' only sort of a word, who would bother??
It does derive from Greek, as do most words describing phobias.
I did have to check the spelling, as it's not a word I would use all the time.
I can remember how to spell
triskaidekaphobia, though, which is plain old fear of the number thirteen.
Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 3:54 pm
by Ruthie-Baby(old a/c)
words with too many letters scare me
what's the word for that???!!
Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 3:59 pm
by Richard Ruck
Not sure.
However, hellenologophobia is a fear of words of Greek derivation....
Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 4:01 pm
by Great Plum
ther eis a phobia website somewhere with all the words on it...
Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 4:02 pm
by Richard Ruck
Found it - fear of long words: Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia!
Sounds a bit unlikely, that one!