Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site gloria.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!rochester!rocksvax!rocksanne!sunybcs!gloria!colonel From: colonel@gloria.UUCP (George Sicherman) Newsgroups: net.games.trivia,net.nlang Subject: Re: fear of 13 Message-ID: <659@gloria.UUCP> Date: Mon, 5-Nov-84 11:41:21 EST Article-I.D.: gloria.659 Posted: Mon Nov 5 11:41:21 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 8-Nov-84 19:14:06 EST References: <206@hocsj.UUCP> Organization: SUNY-Buffalo Confuser Science Lines: 16 > > (***triskadecaphobic: Someone with an irrational fear of the number 13.) > > (Sorry.) Actually it's 'triskadekaphobic' (note spelling) and the forms are: > 'triskadekaphobe' -- one who is afraid of the number 13 (noun) > 'triskadekaphobic' -- afraid of the number 13 (adj.) > 'triskadekaphobia' -- fear of the number 13 (noun) > though I imagine that 'triskadekaphobic' could be a parallel construction to > 'paraplegic' et al. "Deca" is an accepted variant of "deka"; in particular, the metric system uses "deca." I have also seen "triskai-"; "kai" is Greek for "and." -- Col. G. L. Sicherman ...seismo!rochester!rocksanne!rocksvax!sunybcs!gloria!colonel