Two More Words

Triskaidekaphobia – this was the word I learned on Friday the 13^th after the instructor gave some quick trivia to her students about Friday the 13^th. Triskaidekaphobia is the fear of the number 13.  Of course Jenna was already familiar with the word as long words are a part of her vocabulary. She doesn’t think it’s as fun to say as Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia, however.

Evidently I had never either learned about Friday the 13^th or just hadn’t commited it to memory about the reasons behind the superstition and was surprised to learn about the Christian involvement as Judas Iscariot (number 13 in the group with Christ and his 12 apostles) and because of the cruxifixion happening on Friday. 

          She also wrote the date without dashes 91319 – and pointed out the number reads the same forward as it does backward – which brings us to our second word: Palindrome

I have been doing some wordsearch puzzles and the directions for one was to find 12 palindromes: that is 12 words that are spelled  the same forward as it is backward.  Some of the words I remember were: mom, kayak, wow, civic and noon.  I had learned about palindromes quite a while ago, but had forgotten the name of the word. I enjoy learning more as I get older than I did as a youth.  I’m grateful that Jenna enjoys learning.