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Ataxophobia: The Fear of Disorder or Untidiness
Have you ever come across someone who has an exaggerated sense of orderliness? Do they keep all their belongings in an order that is fascinating and yet disturbing? Well, they are most likely to be suffering from a condition called Ataxophobia. Ataxophobia is an irrational and abnormal fear of disorder and dysfunction. Literally, this word with Greek roots means ‘fear of untidiness’. “If a cluttered desk is a sign of cluttered mind, if what, then is an empty desk a sign?” – Albert Einstein This condition is not restricted to being a cleanliness freak alone but can instigate a horrifying
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Quirkyalone: someone who is single and does not feel the need to date for the sake of it
More and more, millennials and the generations directly preceding them are turning away from what was once a culturally accepted phenomenon: pairing up from a young age, and staying with a partner – any partner – through high school, to college, to marriage, children, and death. For some reason, generations older than those born in the last twenty years find the concept of not wanting to do this to be something on the edge of taboo. To them, the idea of someone happily existing as a single entity – by choice, no less – is seen as unnatural. Because surely
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Cynophobia: The Fear of Dogs
Unlike the fear of spiders, snakes or rats, the fear of cats (ailurophobia) and the fear of dogs (cynophobia) are not particularly common zoophobia fears. That said, those that do suffer from them are subjected to seeing the source of their fear everywhere they go. Cats and dogs are the most common household pets, from rural households to urban ones, and although to most of us the idea of fearing creatures we live in harmony with is strange, to some, the very idea of sharing a home with descendants of wolves is inconceivable. Perhaps that’s where cynophobia finds its source.
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Zoophobia: A Fear of Animals
To most of us, the idea that someone could fear all animals comes across as almost absurd. Animals are in our daily lives, even if we aren’t able to have a pet of our own. We see pigeons and sparrows on the streets, people walk their dogs on the beach… In some countries, farm animals are a common thing to see in public parks, grazing behind wire fences and bothering no one at all. But for some people, such scenes bring about terror and panic. The question is, why? Certainly fear of wild animals, such as wolves or boars, have
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Achluophobia: A Fear of the Dark
While many phobias can arise in early childhood – perhaps after hearing a frightening story or seeing a scary film – and others can pop up once one an adult, certain phobias are so deeply ingrained in the human psyche that they seem to have no dateable origin whatsoever. They are innate and uncontrollable, and sometimes – going against the grain of the very definition of phobias themselves – have very rational, and even evolutionary roots. One such phobia is achluophobia – or the fear of the dark. The dark is our only certain uncertainty, a constant, the one thing
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The “Pirate speak” from movies and books was an actual…
The “Pirate speak” from movies and books was an actual distinct dialect of English which was spoken until the 19th century in the west country. It became associated with pirates due to the strong seafaring tradition from the area.
Calling football “soccer” originated in Britain…
Calling football “soccer” originated in Britain 200 years ago. It wasn’t until the 1980s that Britain began to phase out the name because it was “too American”.
The Italian words widely used in New Jersey…
The Italian words widely used in New Jersey differ greatly from mainstream Italian today not because of bad “copying” but because the words came from people speaking an Italian dialect that subsequently died out in Italy.
Louisiana French is in decline. One million people spoke…
Louisiana French is in decline. One million people spoke it in 1968, now only 150k-200k speak it.