(From this article)
…the Fear is Very Real… So real that one scientific name wasn’t enough. The fear of Friday the 13th is also called friggatriskaidekaphobia or paraskevidekatriaphobia. Now say that 10 times really fast!
Friggatriskaidekaphobia comes from Frigg, the Norse goddess of wisdom after whom Friday is named, and the Greek words triskaideka, meaning 13, and phobia, meaning fear. Paraskevidekatriaphobia is also derived from Greek: paraskeví translates as Friday, and dekatria is another way of saying 13.
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Another awful phobia is Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia. If you dread this article because of its long words, you yourself might have Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia. It is the fear of long words. The Hippopoto and the monstro were in fact added to make it monstrously longer. It can be shortened to Sesquipedaliophobia, if you want to rob it of its glory, that is. Sesquipedalio refers to long words. If you didn’t have it already, after reading so many long words, you may have come down with a case of Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia. (Yes, I did use copy and paste for this one.)
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