There's A Word For It

Let's face it, some collectables have more status attached to them than others. In the more respected collecting fields, collectors will often have a fancy designation they can use to refer to themselves, to show that they are serious collectors. Coin collectors are numismatists. Stamp collectors are philatelists. Teddy bear collectors are arctophilists. But did you know that there's a fancy term for someone who collects key rings? That term is copoclephilist.

According to my online research, the word copoclephislist originates from the combination of three Greek words: kope, kleis, and phile. Kope means handle, kleis is key, and phile translates as "one that is attracted to".

Just don't ask me how to pronounce it.

Signed, Treesa