Talk:homonymphobia
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— SURJECTION / T / C / L / 05:40, 24 August 2022 (UTC)
- “A fear of words that rhyme”. That includes virtually all words except orange (although, for some speakers, this rhymes with doorhinge). Someone inflicted with this phobia would be speechless, so how is this different from logophobia? --Lambiam 08:55, 24 August 2022 (UTC)
- I managed to get Wikipedia to add "blorange" as a rhyme. Probably the one time I made any change that wasn't eventually entropied. Equinox ◑ 14:02, 24 August 2022 (UTC)
- I did find one cite, Citations:homonymphobia, although it would suggest tweaking the definition to "fear of homonyms". - -sche (discuss) 16:37, 26 August 2022 (UTC)
- No cites for the other morphologies? DCDuring (talk) 17:21, 26 August 2022 (UTC)
- Your comment led me to look for google books:"homophonophobia", which gets some hits, which in turn led me to realize that a more expected form for this word would would be homonymophobia with an -o-, which does seem to be attested: Citations:homonymophobia. So maybe we can move (and redefine) the entry. The meaning seems to be "fear of homonyms", not "fear of words that rhyme", though. - -sche (discuss) 17:42, 26 August 2022 (UTC)
- My brain keeps trying to parse this as some kind of weird and probably offensive LGBQ term... Chuck Entz (talk) 17:57, 26 August 2022 (UTC)
- There is nymphophobia, which looks attestable. DCDuring (talk) 03:02, 27 August 2022 (UTC)
- My brain keeps trying to parse this as some kind of weird and probably offensive LGBQ term... Chuck Entz (talk) 17:57, 26 August 2022 (UTC)
- Your comment led me to look for google books:"homophonophobia", which gets some hits, which in turn led me to realize that a more expected form for this word would would be homonymophobia with an -o-, which does seem to be attested: Citations:homonymophobia. So maybe we can move (and redefine) the entry. The meaning seems to be "fear of homonyms", not "fear of words that rhyme", though. - -sche (discuss) 17:42, 26 August 2022 (UTC)
- No cites for the other morphologies? DCDuring (talk) 17:21, 26 August 2022 (UTC)
- I created the better-attested spelling homonymophobia; thanks to This, that for formatting the cites. Homonymphobia's spelling and definition both seem mistaken. - -sche (discuss) 09:17, 28 August 2022 (UTC)
- Does seem to have been cited (seemingly two books and a newspaper). I've made it an
{{alt form}}. - -sche (discuss) 04:36, 14 November 2022 (UTC)
RFV Passed Ioaxxere (talk) 20:03, 9 February 2023 (UTC)