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Ofophobia: Fear of the word of.

gojirophobia: fear of Godzilla
jalapeñophobia: fear of jalapeños
claustrophobiophobia: fear of fearing closed space
forophobia: fear of the word "for"
bananophobia: fear of bananas

Iophobia: fear of the word "I."
Wrongplanetophobia: (do I have to say what it is?)

Robophobia- fear of robots. Including Transformers.

Explanation: You cannot just say Iophobia because the word needs an ending in itself, like -ophobia. This noun, the moon's name, ends in -o. It must be expanded in some direction. Compare, Pluto, another name ending in -o. Is the fear of Pluto called plutophobia? No, it isn't, it would be something like Plutonophobia.

Hence, Iotophobia.

I thought that picture in Kip's post was some rotten/moldy ice cream or something. That certainly put me off, which reminds me of fungophobia - fear of fungi. I have that. Obviously someone else has already used the term "fungophobia", though it's not really an accepted word.

(theory) stringophobia, fear of everything ever. ever.