It turns out one of my Tennant Creek apprentices (Skye of the don't-let-her-behind-the-wheel-of-a-car-if-you- want-to-live fame) has a phobia about turkeys.  She was attacked by one as a child, apparently, and is so terrified you can make her squeal by saying "gobble gobble" and she has to leave the room if the Wild Turkey ad comes on TV.This prompted an entire afternoon in class searching the internet for the correct name of a turkey phobia.

The upshot of this complete waste of time and government resources was that we still have no idea what the correct name for Skye's phobia is, but we did compile a fairly impressive list of other phobias, more than one of which, I suspect, is not entirely genuine.

• Ailuropyrophobia — fear of kittens or cats
• Arachibutyrophobia — fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth (seriously)
• Saukuraphobia — Fear of getting beat up by Japanese schoolgirls. (Methinks this one might not be genuine)
• Phoia — fear of the letter b
  
• A++++++++++++phobia — fear of getting anything other than positive feedback on eBay.
• Megacaninaphobia — fear of big f***ing dogs 
• Agyrophobia — fear of streets or crossing the street
• Hobia — fear of the letter P
• Anuptaphobia — fear of staying single
• Smegophobia — fear of English Sci-Fi parodies 
• Atomosophobia — fear of atomic explosions (a perfectly reasonable phobia, I would have thought)
• Apeirophobia— fear of infinity
• Bufonophobia — fear of toads  
• Lordofthephobias  — fear of Tolkien
• Acophobia — fear of ugliness
• Phobiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa — fear of cats on the keyboard (te-he) 
• Coulrophobia — fear of clowns
• Harpaxophobia— fear of being robbed (a phobia I’m well on the way to developing)
• Aibohphobia — fear of palindromes
• Pteronophobia — fear of being tickled by feathers (yup, it’s a phobia)
• Sesquipedalophobia — fear of long words (Exactly how do you tell someone you’re suffering from this?)
• Triskaidekaphobia — fear of the number 13 (had to put this one on the list, because Thirdborn could spell it by the time he was 13)
• Alektorophobia — fear of chickens (the closest we could get to turkeys, and the purpose of this whole silly exercise)

And my all time favourite —

• Superphobia — the fear of leaping tall buildings in a single bound… and missing:)

Funny list, and I'd say fear of turkeys is meleagraphobia.
And according to you, my books are perilous to Smegophobics ;-)

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