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turophobia
noun
an irrational or disproportionate fear of cheese.
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People who desperately avoid cheese may at least be pleased to learn there is a word they can use for their experience: turophobia 鈥渁n irrational or disproportionate fear of cheese.鈥� This term is formed on tur-, a variant of Greek 迟测虅谤贸蝉 鈥渃heese鈥� and -phobia, a combining form meaning 鈥渇ear,鈥� itself from Greek 辫丑贸产辞蝉 鈥渇ear, panic.鈥� Fear not, cheese lovers: a turophile is a connoisseur or lover of cheese, with –phile a Greek-derived combining form meaning 鈥渓over of.鈥� Turophobia is fairly new formation in English, recorded in the early 2000s.
how is turophobia used?
Stossel’s own fears include turophobia, a fear of cheese; asthenophobia, a fear of fainting; and claustrophobia.
What is your main character鈥檚 worst fear? Is it something universal, like the death of a loved one? Or a rare phobia, like turophobia (fear of cheese).
thither
adverb
to or toward that place or point; there.
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The adverb thither 鈥渢o or toward that place or point; there鈥� is an old one in English. Its original form in Old English was 迟丑忙诲别谤, altered to thider (among other forms) due to hider. This adverb hider evolved into a word thither frequently appears together with: hither, as in hither and thither 鈥渉ere and there.鈥� Thither was largely replaced by there (as hither was by here). If you go back far enough in time, you鈥檒l find that thither and there share a common root, as do many humble English function words beginning with th-, including that, this, and the.
how is thither used?
We told them that we were travelling, that we had been transported thither, and that they had nothing to fear from us.
He was a thorough-going old Tory … who seldom himself went near the metropolis, unless called thither by some occasion of cattle-showing.
厂辫谤补肠丑驳别蹿眉丑濒
noun
German.
a sensitivity to language, especially for what is grammatically or idiomatically acceptable in a given language.
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If you have sufficient 厂辫谤补肠丑驳别蹿眉丑濒 for German, you鈥檒l know that this noun is a great example of how that language can form compounds that capture very specific concepts. 厂辫谤补肠丑驳别蹿眉丑濒 combines German Sprache 鈥渟peech, language鈥� and 骋别蹿眉丑濒 鈥渇eeling.鈥� Literally meaning 鈥渟peech-feeling,鈥� this term was borrowed into English by the early 1900s to convey the idea of 鈥渁 sensitivity to language, especially for what is grammatically or idiomatically acceptable in a given language,鈥� that is, an intuitive sense of how a language works. For instance, native English speakers understand (usually without being explicitly taught about adjective order) that a phrase like the green big book is incorrect in English. (The correct construction would be the big green book.)
how is 厂辫谤补肠丑驳别蹿眉丑濒 used?
He displays an extraordinary range of what Germans call 厂辫谤补肠丑驳别蹿眉丑濒, an infectious love of language that inspires his readers and illuminates the nooks and crannies of the English language.
The test of vocabulary is important, but subordinate to that of “厂辫谤补肠丑驳别蹿眉丑濒.”