slugs and snails

[Immi666]

anyone know what the phobia of slugs and snails is called?

[Clanad]

Perhaps Blennophobia or Myxophobia. Possibly Gastropodiaphobia...

[Skids]

Slugnsnailophobia?

[Quizmonster]

As Clanad indicates above, phobia-names are made up from the appropriate Greek root-word. On that basis - 'snail' being 'saligkari' - I suggest 'saligkariphobia' for the snail aspect at least.

[Buenchico]

The first place I looked was
http://www.phobialist.com/
but I think Clanad beat me too it! (Incidentally, his suggestions of Blennophobia or Myxophobia both mean 'fear of slime').

A bit more searching, however, led me to this site:
http://www.shagtech.com/features/phobias.html
Here the term MOLLUSCOPHOBIA is coined for the fear of slugs & snails. (There is also a claim that the actor Steve Martin suffers from it!)

Chris

[Buenchico]

Hang on a minute!
I just typed 'too' instead of 'to'. For some reason I keep doing that!

Does anyone know the name for a fear of spelling mistakes?

Chris

[Marsh]

A literallergy :-)

[Quizmonster]

How about cacographophobia, Buenchico?