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[John Feltham]

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> Subject: A.Word.A.Day--scotophobia
> Date: 5 July 2012 14:13:04 PM AEST
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> Jul 5, 2012
> This week's theme
> Words made with combining forms 
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> monology
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> scotophobia
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> scotophobia
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> PRONUNCIATION:
> For 1: (sko-tuh-FOH-bee-uh)
> For 2: (ska-tuh-FOH-bee-uh)
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> MEANING:
> noun:
> 1. Fear of the dark.
> 2. Fear or hatred of Scottish people or culture.
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> ETYMOLOGY:
> For 1: From Greek scoto- (darkness) + -phobia (hatred, fear). The opposite is photophobia and a synonym is nyctophobia. Earliest documented use: 1844.
> For 2: From Scoto- (Scottish) + -phobia (hatred, fear). Earliest documented use: 1828.
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> USAGE:
> "In the grip of scotophobia -- those palpitations, that slurry speech, the way she shook when it grew dark."
> Matthew Emmens; Zenobia: The Curious Book of Business; Berrett-Koehler; 2008.
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> "Alan Riach, professor of Scottish literature at the University of Glasgow, said he detected a trace of Scotophobia in Paxman's views."
> Jeremy Paxman Ridicules Robert Burns as King of Doggerel; The Times (London, UK); Aug 15, 2008.
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> The ring always believes that the finger lives for it. -Malcolm De Chazal, writer and painter (1902-1981) 
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