hexakosi...oh, forget it

[Laurence Horn]

At 7:40 AM -0800 1/10/08, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>Here's somthing you don't see every day. About a town that whipped evil:
>
>   2007 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7163767.stm (Dec. 29):
>
>   "The fear of the number 666 is known as hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia."
>
Now they tell us!  I just *knew* there was another "Most useful word
of the year" candidate out there before our vote...

L

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