I am looking for a name for an idea that I have for a website. It is a niche hobby, but there is a greek word for it that most people don’t know. Lets say its a book club and the word was Bibliophile or a music club called Melophile.
Would you, if you did not know the meaning, think of it as something sexual, or maybe even something bad? I am nervous that users might relate it to pedophile even though that is just one of, (but maybe best known) philias there are
When I was in a college level genetic biology class, we were discussing the early experiments using fruit flies. Their scientific name being Drosophila melanogaster; a species of fly in the family Drosophilidae. Pronounced “drow-sof-ila.” Well I had only ever read it, so when I raised my hand to ask a question, I didn’t understand why everyone was snickering as I pronounced it “draw-so-filia.”
Here I was trying to talk about genetics and instead I was making public a secret fly kink