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  2. Fear of the dark - Wikipedia

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    When fear of the dark reaches a degree that is severe enough to be considered pathological, it is sometimes called scotophobia (from σκότος – "darkness"), or lygophobia (from λυγή – "twilight"). Some researchers, beginning with Sigmund Freud, consider the fear of the dark to be a manifestation of separation anxiety disorder. [4]

  3. List of phobias - Wikipedia

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    The English suffixes -phobia, -phobic, -phobe (from Greek φόβος phobos, "fear") occur in technical usage in psychiatry to construct words that describe irrational, abnormal, unwarranted, persistent, or disabling fear as a mental disorder (e.g. agoraphobia), in chemistry to describe chemical aversions (e.g. hydrophobic), in biology to describe organisms that dislike certain conditions (e.g ...

  4. List of diglossic regions - Wikipedia

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    SStdE is similar to other varieties of Standard English in grammar and lexis but with some of its own features of pronunciation, particularly the use of full vowels (rather than [ə]) in most function words and also the sporadic absence of dental fricatives, [25] while SCE is characterised by a simplified grammar (including the omission of some ...

  5. MLS pushes for new viewers on Xfinity, DirecTV, T-Mobile; new ...

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    Major League Soccer and Apple are making a major push to reach more viewers in 2025.. Soccer fans with Comcast Xfinity and DirecTV can subscribe and watch MLS Season Pass through the TV providers ...

  6. English phonology - Wikipedia

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    The following table shows the 24 consonant phonemes found in most dialects of English, plus /x/, whose distribution is more limited. Fortis consonants are always voiceless, aspirated in syllable onset (except in clusters beginning with /s/ or /ʃ/), and sometimes also glottalized to an extent in syllable coda (most likely to occur with /t/, see T-glottalization), while lenis consonants are ...

  7. Chocolate paired with tea has health benefits that outweigh wine

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    Both tea and chocolate have a rich, unique history spanning thousands of years.. Tea made its debut in 2737 B.C., when legend has it Chinese emperor Shen Nung was sipping boiled water beneath a ...

  8. O.C. judge sides with Italian mom in custody dispute that has ...

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    Six months after an American man whisked his infant son out of Italy against the mother's wishes, a federal judge has ruled that she can return with the child to her native Italy.

  9. List of irregularly spelled English names - Wikipedia

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    This is a set of lists of English personal and place names having spellings that are counterintuitive to their pronunciation because the spelling does not accord with conventional pronunciation associations. Many of these are degenerations in the pronunciation of names that originated in other languages.