#6. The Over-Phobic Excuse

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"Help! There's a spider¹ under my bed. It's teasing me because I'm too scared to play Scrabble², Go Fish³, Snap⁴, Twister⁵, Hungry Hippos⁶, Battleships⁷ and Guess Who⁸⁹¹⁰ . . .

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. . . and then it called me Floccinaucinihilipilification¹¹. AAAAAARGH!"


¹Arachnophobia - fear of spiders.

²Verbophobia - fear of words.

³Ichthyophobia - fear of fish.

⁴Ligyrophobia - fear of loud noises.

⁵Chromatophobia - fear of colours.

⁶Phagophobia - fear of swallowing or of eating or of being eaten.

⁷Arithmophobia - fear of numbers.

⁸Peladophobia - fear of bald people.

⁹Pogonophobia - fear of beards.

¹⁰Xenophobia - fear of strangers or foreigners.

¹¹Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia - fear of long words (and hippos).




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