pomophobe

[Jonathan Lighter]

See, an apple in Latin is "pomum."  It's kind of a play on words.

But the ancients didn't have potatoes, so I don't see how they could have
been afraid of them.

Except perhaps in dreams....

JL

On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 4:25 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> > Yep. Over 10,000 raw hits.
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> At first, thanks to increasing presbyopia, I read the word as
> _pornophobe_, an obvious oxymoron.
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> But, "hates apples?" I don't get it.
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