WORD OF THE DAY: Logophobia

logophobia
\law-guh-FOH-bee-uh, log-uh-\
noun
1. an obsessive fear of words.
Quotes
There is just one cure for logophobia, and that is self-scrutiny–to discover whether one’s reaction to a given term when seen in a newspaper or heard from a platform is really justified by the true significance.
— , “Logophobia,” The Nation, August 23, 1919