Well done, Shaun. Even my former aquarium fish and budgerigars (currently nonexistent though tetrapods) and WQXR, our FM station, know triskaidekaphobia. I have an unfair advantage with paraskavedekatriaphobia. Visiting Greece of course helps, and it I think it has appeared in puzzles and in WQXR chatter. Not yet seen in Scrabble by me.
Here’s another genuine conversational MD word that means a bruise:Ecchymosis pronunciation: (/ˌɛkᵻˈmoʊsᵻs/). I knew one lady who just loved to say it and giggle. (Ditto for borborygmus.)
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