Talk:Fear of mice

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[edit] Title &c.

Just in case someone starts wondering: ["fear of mice" -musophobia] gives 18,000 hits; while "murophobia" is a propagated typo, "mysophobia" is fear of dirt, and "suriphobia" is not registered by serious dictionaries yet (and by the way, what the heck does it mean? "Rat" is rattus. Or it is Greek for mouse?). `'mikka (t) 07:02, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

I think the title should be musophobia. It looks neater. It's also the technical term... and this is an encyclopedia. riana 05:54, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

The title should be the most used one. And until a real doctor comes here and tells me that it is a widely used "technical term", I will not take it for granted. `'mikka (t) 06:35, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] General Cleanup Today

I did not remove the tag requesting more sources, because most of the first few paragraphs remain unsourced. However, I dug up external cites and wikilinks for much of the rest of the article, including every piece I added. I deleted two items from the trivia section: a vague comment about a "lot of things" named "of mice and women" in a takeoff of Of Mice and Men; and an extremely arcane reference to a TV series in which one character states he has musophopbia. I also put suriphobia in the intro paragraph as 1. it redirects here and 2. I was able to find an etymology for it and 3. it's the reason I started looking this up today. Whether it's a new term coming into use, or an old term falling out of use, either way, it is still in use right now and the article should reference it.-- Lisasmall 19:47, 10 August 2007 (UTC)