grammatophobia

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noun

An aversion to grammar.

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Meanings

noungrammatophobia (uncountable)
  1. humorousrareuncountableAn aversion to grammar.

    2003, Rodney Huddleston and Geoffrey K. Pullum, Of grammatophobia (in The Chronicle of Higher Education)

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    Grammatophobia. Now what is the problem that the American child is confronted with in his study of grammar? It is this: he is called upon to explain things he knows in terms of things he does not know […]

    1915, School and Home Education, volume 34, page 255

    It was a clear case of what might be termed grammatophobia. I concluded he needed the grammatical rest-cure, and therefore omitted English from his first year at the High School.

    1917, Collected and bound, volume 2, page 371

Origin

From grammato- + -phobia.

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