Last week Ron Thompson wrote:
There should be a term for the fear of dying under your own bookcase and books. Perhaps your readers can come up with one.
Martin Purdy writes:
I first thought of "bibliothanatophobia" for this (book-death-fear) but a friend more versed in Ancient Greek than I am suggested that "phonos" is a better word for the
"death" part, with more sinister overtones, so that would give us either "bibliophonophobia" or "bibliothekephonophobia" if you want to go the whole hog and call it
"fear of death by bookshelf"!
Harry Cabluck writes:
Perhaps the term might be "Libros-Biblios-Thana-Phobios" Or, "Bibliothanaphobia"
To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
MORE ON THE THREAT OF COLLAPSING BOOKSHELVES (www.coinbooks.org/v20/esylum_v20n11a07.html)
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