Wurdz

[greennotebook]

abject - in general use this means degrading, completely without dignity; in psychology, it means a state of horror caused when meaning, order, and the boundary between self and other breaks down, such as when we see a corpse and it reminds us of our own mortality, or when we encounter an atrocity. (This is my stab at a definition based on various

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[southerndave]

assiduous - "showing great care and perseverance".

I think it's also the name of the font that was on the older BBC Doctor Who books.

I've also seen "canalisation" and understood it in context to refer to turning a river into a canal or something like that; "doughty" is fairly common in older adventure stories; I've never heard "palliate" but hear the adjective "palliative" a lot; "wonted" I understood to basically mean "habitual" but I can't remember ever seeing it in anything written after about 1940 unless it was trying to seem older.

[issi_noho]

'Wont' is fairly common currency.

[issi_noho]

Cocoasimiaphobia - fear of chocolate monkeys.

[kateorman]

At last, acknowledgement of this condition!

I myself coined Cthonophagophilia: "I wish the earth would swallow me".

Google Psycholinguistics

[issi_noho]

Why are negations so easy to fail to miss?

Late

[issi_noho]

'Late', as in 'no updates'.

Can you add 'Call My Bluff' to this place's interests? Please? It's well appropriate.

I came here with new phobias, but the list went through the wash.

But there is one thing I have remaining: 'Swizzlewick'.

There. I'm done now. In more than one sense.

The things detergent can't destroy.

[issi_noho]

Arachibutyophobia: fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth.

Peladophobia: fear of bald people.

Claptrap

[issi_noho]

Noticed a reference to this on Neil Gaiman's journal:

http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-cla1.htm