HotForWords » Coulrophobia http://hotforwords.com Marina Orlova - Not your typical philologist. Etymology, philology, word origins, origin of, hot teacher. Thu, 26 Jan 2012 22:55:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Ronald McDonald gives me a case of coulrophobia! http://hotforwords.com/2011/05/22/ronald-mcdonald-gives-me-a-case-of-coulrophobia/ http://hotforwords.com/2011/05/22/ronald-mcdonald-gives-me-a-case-of-coulrophobia/#comments Sun, 22 May 2011 21:54:03 +0000 HotForWords http://www.hotforwords.com/?p=12074 Interesting article in the Economist this week where I finally get to see one of my (rare) words used in an actual article!   Coulrophobia!  You remember this word from an earlier lesson of mine?  You can see that lesson below.

The article states that health activists want to sack the world’s best-known clown!  You can read the article here. I was just happy to see coulrophobia used in an article!  Yeah!

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If you suffer from coulrophobia, DO NOT watch this video.

Here is the video of that woman who suffers from coulrophobia.

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