grammatophobia

grammatophobia

English

Etymology

grammato- +‎ -phobia

Noun

grammatophobia (uncountable)

1. (rare, humorous) An aversion to grammar.
   • 1915, School and Home Education (volume 34, page 255)

     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 […]

   • 1917, Collected and bound (volume 2, page 371)

     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.

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