Little and not-so-little manias

[Conchita]

Do you think you are obsessed with something? Maybe you are an ablutomaniac (not to mistake for clinomaniac) or an egomaniac? There’s even tulipomania or gamomania (obsession with issuing odd marriage proposals)!? :o :lol:

Take your pick from an exhaustive list:
http://www.phrontistery.info/mania.html

A little mania of mine is reading isolated words or short sentences (e.g. signs) backwards, letter by letter. Provided they are not too long, I can say them too (my children have turned it into a game). Quite a few people seem to do that, actually – not that I need reassuring, of course, or do I? There’s even a backwards slang or backslang, which was often used by street gangs in 19th century London, for instance.

Bibliomania – now this is a common one – is another of my obsessions, together with dinomania and many others. Oh, and I was going to forget anglomania!

[Yankee]

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How about grammarmania?
:D

Another mania I didn't notice on your list was "rulemania"? Doesn't that exist? 8) :wink:
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[Alan]

Hi Conchita,

I share your mania as in bibliomania - is that new or secondhand?

Alan
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[Conchita]

[Alan]

Hi Conchita,

Thanks for quoting my piece - I'd forgotten I wrote it, must be getting older.

To get to my point. What I meant was do you like collecting secondhand books?

Alan
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[Conchita]