grammatophobia
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]grammatophobia (uncountable)
- (rare, humorous) An aversion to grammar.
- 1915, School and Home Education, volume 34, page 255:
- Grammatophobia. Now what is the problem that the American child is confronted with in his study of grammar? It is this: he is called upon to explain things he knows in terms of things he does not know […]
- 1917, Collected and bound, volume 2, page 371:
- It was a clear case of what might be termed grammatophobia. I concluded he needed the grammatical rest-cure, and therefore omitted English from his first year at the High School.
- 2003, Rodney Huddleston and Geoffrey K. Pullum, Of grammatophobia (in The Chronicle of Higher Education)