WTFobia?!

Just noticed (Thanks to Excel) that I Survived my 70th Friday the 13th (oops, I just gave away my age!) since birth, w/o extremely unpleasant incidents! Looks like you name it, they find a word for it's phobia! I guess these phobics offer job security for wonderful people at Oxford and Webster's:-) Here are the five most common phobias:

1. Fear of snakes (ophidiophobia)
2. Fear of giving a speech (glossophobia)
3. Fear of heights (acrophobia)
4. Fear of rodents (musophobia)
5. Fear of flying (aviophobia)

Here is a list of few phobias - some well known, some not so well known.

Papaphobia - fear of the pope.
Scorodophobia - fear of garlic.
Pteronophobia - fear of being tickled with feathers.
Ranidaphobia - fear of frogs.
Philematophobia - fear of kissing.
Aulophobia - fear of flutes.
Ostraconophobia - fear of shellfish.
Graphophobia - fear of handwriting.
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia - fear of long words (seriously)*
Blennophobia - fear of slime.
Gerontophobia - fear of old people.
Peladophobia - fear of bald people.(I am Peladophobiacphobic!)
Geropeladophobia - fear of old, bald people.
Phobophobia - fear of developing a fear.

* I wonder how the doctor breaks this news?! "Mr. Adams, you have Hippo..." and he faints! I am sure the same mean-spirited guy/gal who invented this word also invented the word "Lisp". Seriously, imagine how hard it would be for a person with Lisp to say Lisp!

Source for phobias and the graphic: msn.com