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| | Words are ours to revel in... (printable version) |
 | | When I was a kid, the Reader’s Digest came regularly to our house, and I read it cover to cover, including the monthly vocabulary building drills which must have been inspired by the original 1942 30 Days book. |
 | | My favorite list was phobias, and one such is included in today’s Pocket Book edition: ceraunophobia, astraphobia, ophidiophobia, nyctophobia, acrophobia, pyrophobia, aquaphobia, ailurophobia, cynophobia, agoraphobia, triskaidekaphobia, and claustrophobia. |
 | | I didn’t need to know the name to know I suffered horribly from ophidiophobia (a morbid dread of snakes) and a little from claustrophobia, but when the lists or the Digest articles turned to diseases, I met my Waterloo. |
| www.rgj.com /news/printstory.php?id=91710 (747 words) |
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