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New Westie ice-cream place impresses with its vocabulary

By adamg on Wed, 05/14/2008 - 2:19pm

OK, but what does it mean?

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Centre Street

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By Suldog on Wed, 05/14/2008 - 2:27pm.

Fear of Friday The 13th. Or, at least, that's what Wiktionary says.

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By adamg on 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?

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By ljd on 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".

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By newchristine on Sat, 05/17/2008 - 7:07pm.

....not having any ice cream on Centre Street!!! Horr~ay for iscream!

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