Definitely #3 is correct. Names of medical conditions or common ailments are used without an article. I have not seen phobia used with a preceding descriptive noun. The actual name is used, or "fear of" June is suffering from lygophobia.

‘Touch wood, cross your fingers, and pop that lucky rabbit’s foot in your pocket – and there will be an almost five-to-one chance that you will not then be troubled today with paraskevidekatriaphobia ­– fear of Friday the 13th.’ (Tim Radford,

It's true "anxious of" is now getting obsolete. I'm wondering why the construct of "be anxious for V-ing (gerund)" is not used. Is it because there is the construct of "be anxious for a noun to V" ? paco I found a good example "anxious of" in a

Hello Paco 'To + whom?' as 'clarification where object and indirect pronouns are indistinguishable' is quite persuasive. Your comment on the fact that 'whom?' originally derives from the dative (rather than 'hwane'/'hwone') makes me wonder

Main Entry: pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis Function: noun Definition: supposedly the longest word in a dictionary, an artificial word said to mean a lung disease caused by the inhalation of silica dust. Artificial word?

It was a mild form of humour, Michael. One meaning ... tie back to the footpads, which are highwaymen, you see. So I've just discovered. Is that widely used? It's the only meaning of 'bushwhacking' that I grew up with. I thought it

Per R=F8nne) typed thus: =20 obAUE - "driver's license" is American English. The UK ... - I point this out in a spirit of=20 helpfulness). driving (or driver's) licence. =3D=3D=3D It says nothing about a difference between UK and

I dislike all those "terms of venery" I've seen very little evidence that any real people ever used them, and a certain amount that people sat around and made them up out of thin air. I agree with this completely. I participate in

It is basically a nonsense word invented by putting latin prefixes and suffixes together. Actually, they're Greek roots. Please note that there are words describing phobias for such things as oxygen and circular objects, with no known cases of