The Little Dictionary of the Strangest Phobias...

The little dictionary of the strangest phobias. We hope you don’t have phobiophobia...

-A-

Ablutophobia- Fear of washing or bathing

Agyrophobia- Fear of streets of crossing the street.

Alektorophobia- Fear of chickens.

Anglophobia- Fear of England or English culture, etc.

Arithmophobia- Fear of numbers.

Autophobia- Fear of being alone or of oneself.

-B-

Barophobia- Fear of gravity.

Bibliophobia- Fear of books.

Bromidrosiphobia or Bromidrophobia- Fear of body smells.

-C-

Cacophobia- Fear of ugliness.

Catoptrophobia- Fear of mirrors.

Chaetophobia- Fear of hair.

Chromophobia or Chromatophobia- Fear of colors.

Consecotaleophobia- Fear of chopsticks.

-D-

Deipnophobia- Fear of dining or dinner conversations.

Dromophobia- Fear of crossing streets.
Dutchphobia- Fear of the Dutch.

-E-

Ephebiphobia- Fear of teenagers.
Epistaxiophobia- Fear of nosebleeds.

Euphobia- Fear of hearing good news.

-F-

Francophobia- Fear of France or French culture.

-G-

Gephyrophobia or Gephydrophobia or Gephysrophobia- Fear of crossing bridges.Germanophobia- Fear of Germany or German culture.

Graphophobia- Fear of writing or handwriting.

Gynephobia or Gynophobia- Fear of women.

-H-

Heliophobia- Fear of the sun.

Hellenologophobia- Fear of Greek terms or complex scientific terminology.

Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia- Fear of the number 666.

Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia- Fear of long words.

Hominophobia- Fear of men.

-I-

Ideophobia- Fear of ideas.

-J-

Japanophobia- Fear of Japanese.
Judeophobia- Fear of Jews.
-K-

Koinoniphobia- Fear of rooms.

Kosmikophobia- Fear of cosmic phenomenon.

-L-

Leukophobia- Fear of the color white.

Logizomechanophobia- Fear of computers.
Logophobia- Fear of words.

-M-

Megalophobia- Fear of large things.

Melanophobia- Fear of the color black.
Melophobia- Fear or hatred of music.

Mnemophobia- Fear of memories.

Mythophobia- Fear of myths or stories or false statements.

-N-

Neopharmaphobia- Fear of new drugs.
Neophobia- Fear of anything new.

Nomatophobia- Fear of names.

-O-

Octophobia - Fear of the figure 8.

Ommetaphobia or Ommatophobia- Fear of eyes.

Oneirophobia- Fear of dreams.

-P-

Panophobia or Pantophobia- Fear of everything.
Papaphobia- Fear of the Pope.Papyrophobia- Fear of paper.

Paraskavedekatriaphobia- Fear of Friday the 13th.

Pedophobia- Fear of children.

Phalacrophobia- Fear of becoming bald.

Phobophobia- Fear of phobias.

Porphyrophobia- Fear of the color purple.

Pupaphobia - Fear of puppets

-Q-

-R-

Russophobia- Fear of Russians.

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Samhainophobia: Fear of Halloween.

Scriptophobia- Fear of writing in public.

Sinophobia- Fear of Chinese, Chinese culture.

Symmetrophobia- Fear of symmetry.

-T-

Technophobia- Fear of technology.

Telephonophobia- Fear of telephones.

Theophobia- Fear of gods or religion.

Triskaidekaphobia- Fear of the number 13.

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Uranophobia or Ouranophobia- Fear of heaven.

-V-

Venustraphobia- Fear of beautiful women.Verbophobia- Fear of words.

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Wiccaphobia: Fear of witches and witchcraft.

-X-

Xenoglossophobia- Fear of foreign languages.

Xylophobia- 1) Fear of wooden objects. 2) Forests.

-Y-

-Z-

Zemmiphobia- Fear of the great mole rat.Zoophobia- Fear of animals.

By: Sofia (with Anne as prove reader)

Chelewa

The 24^th of April was a very special day for “Cabarceno Zoo” as the first baby gorilla was born after 5 years of waiting. Who’d have known however, that this would end in a tragedy?

The mother was very happy about having the baby and loved him as much as human mothers love their babies, or even more. She cared for him and kept him always in her hands. But, by the 8^th of May, Chelewa, the baby’s mother had killed it. This was a dramatic accident. It all happened while they were sleeping and Chelewa moved too fast. She crushed the baby and it died. It was an accident that Chelewa will never forgive herself for.

When Chelewa realised that her baby didn’t move, she rocked it thinking that it would move. But as time went by, she realised that it wasn’t going to move. And she couldn’t bear to leave it alone, after all it was her baby.

The caretakers of the zoo, tried to remove her baby by giving her some sweets but she didn’t care about the sweets, just about her baby. After trying to separate her several times the caretakers had no choice but to sedate her. Only then, could the vets confirm that the baby was dead.

That day, tears were streaming down everyone’s faces, both, humans and gorillas. And Chelewa, was the one who felt the worst. It took her a few days to realise the real situation and that her baby wasn’t coming back with her. Her only support now are her friends, like Monja, a gorilla who had always supported her and is glad to play with her again. Besides, Chelewa is in everyone’s hearts now, because both, gorillas and humans are closer to her, more than ever.

           

By: Paula Arratibel and Ainhoa Peña

The English Language

The English Language

Have you ever wondered why foreigners have trouble with the English Language?

Let's face it
English is a stupid language.
There is no egg in the eggplant
No ham in the hamburger
And neither pine nor apple in the pineapple.
English muffins were not invented in England
French fries were not invented in France.

We sometimes take English for granted
But if we examine its paradoxes we find that
Quicksand takes you down slowly
Boxing rings are square
And a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.

If writers write, how come fingers don't fing.
If the plural of tooth is teeth
Shouldn't the plural of phone booth be phone beeth
If the teacher taught,
Why didn't the preacher praught.

If a vegetarian eats vegetables
What the heck does a humanitarian eat!?
Why do people recite at a play
Yet play at a recital?
Park on driveways and
Drive on parkways

You have to marvel at the unique lunacy
Of a language where a house can burn up as
It burns down
And in which you fill in a form
By filling it out
And a bell is only heard once it goes!

Joke about positive/negative forms

Ten Ways to...

Ten ways to... know if a person is an alien:

1. If the person listens to Justin Bieber, Rebecca Black and the Lazy Town songs but hates people as... (insert any name of good musicians).
2. If the person does weird and spooky sounds when they meet a new person.
3. If the person is wearing short pants and is not wearing a shirt on the coldest day of winter in Siberia.
4. If the person is wearing a scarf and a really big coat on the hottest day of summer in the Sahara.
5. If the person refers to other people as humans.
6. If the person is green, has three heads and doesn’t show any emotion.
7. If the person says weird stuff about space that even the scientists don’t know.
8. If a person always says ‘So that is what you think about us...’ when you talk about aliens.
9. If a person can eat 1.000.000.000 burgers in 6.7 seconds.
10. If a person says it is an alien and shows you its space craft.

Ten ways to... know that you are lost:

1. If you can’t name the place where you are.
2. If all the people speak in a strange language you don’t understand.
3. If you see a map and don’t know where you are unless there is a spot that says ‘You are here’.
4. If you try to find your way and you only find a strange man selling hotdogs.
5. If it’s the ninth time you walked by the same place.
6. If an old woman asks you “Are you lost?” with a creepy accent.
7. If you arrive at a place where all the people are green, and it’s not because of a special cause.
8. If a person says “It’s me or have you been walking in circle for more that three hours”.
9. If you start to cry, shouting “I am lost!!”
10. If you are lost.

By: Sofía.