Timeline for Word for a lighthouse enthusiast
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| Jun 9, 2014 at 14:14 | comment | added | ermanen | I meant colloquially among lighthouse enthusiasts. "lighthouse enthusiast" is more common also but we were looking for a single word. | |
| Jun 9, 2014 at 8:35 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | @Light How so? Buff is used in this sense in both AmE, BrE, and AuE (and probably lots more). Hardly localised. But my point was just that in an informal, colloquial chat, pharophile is not a word I'd expect to hear. | |
| Jun 9, 2014 at 0:25 | comment | added | Lightness Races in Orbit | @JanusBahsJacquet: But the entire "buff" thing is quite localised | |
| Jun 8, 2014 at 23:21 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | I'm not sure “colloquially” is the best word to describe the usage sphere of pharophile. Colloquially, I'd expect the other word (lighthouse buff) to be far more common. | |
| Jun 8, 2014 at 17:49 | history | answered | ermanen | CC BY-SA 3.0 |