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Paraskave...
By Suldog
Wed, 05/14/2008 - 2:27pm
Fear of Friday The 13th. Or, at least, that's what Wiktionary says.
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Ah hah!
By adamg
Wed, 05/14/2008 - 2:33pm
So they'll be opening on June 13, then. Appropriate date for a place named iScream. Wonder if they'll be serving blood-orange sorbet?
It's Greek!
By ljd
Wed, 05/14/2008 - 3:32pm
This "word" is a fairly close transliteration from Modern Greek, consisting of "paraskave" (Friday) plus "deka" (ten) plus "tria" (three) plus "phobia" (fear). Of course it's a take-off on the familiar but simpler English word "triskaidekaphobia", which is from Ancient Greek and means merely "fear of the number 13".
I'd be MORE afraid of.....
By newchristine
Sat, 05/17/2008 - 7:07pm
....not having any ice cream on Centre Street!!! Horr~ay for iscream!