VEXILLOLOGY

Sometimes the way a word sounds infers upon it a more exotic or nefarious meaning than its actual connotation. However, a flag collector is hardly vexing. Unless one is collecting Confederate or Nazi flags or their ilk and surely somebody will be mortally and spiritually wounded by a symbol.

VEXILLOLOGY

the collecting of flags or banners. --vexillologist, n.



from -Ologies & -Isms: A Thematic Dictionary, ed. by Laurence Urdang