“Ah, here’s one!” Alex said, unfolding one of her allocated queries. “Is there a word for the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth?” “Well, is there?” Martha asked, assuming Alex wanted to tell them. “There is. Arachibutyrophobia. Someone made it up in the eighties if I remember rightly. It may even have been one of our lot. It’s a clumsy Greek joke of a word really.” Alex turned to her computer and pursed her lips. “Scattered across the internet on various medical sites. Not in the dictionary, though. Obviously.”
