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Topic: If an Anglophile is a person who loves or likes English/British culture, and if a Francophile...

Anonymous A started this discussion 14 years ago #24,507

If an Anglophile is a person who loves or likes English/British culture, and if a Francophile is a person who loves or likes French culture, then doesn't that make a pedophile just a person who loves or likes children?

After all, all of these words end with the suffix of "-phile ".

RandPaul2016 !4EB6xd.Oos joined in and replied with this 14 years ago, 12 minutes later[^] [v] #378,815

Strictly speaking, yes.
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