Last week I discussed Hobson–Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive. Although many have called Hobson-Jobson a dictionary, that […]
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Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . Hobson–Jobson
During the recent debate about the use of the word “curry”, I looked it up in Hobson–Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . Artificial translation
Last week I wrote about “tortured phrases”, a term invented by the authors of an arXiv preprint in which they highlight the ways in which fake scientific papers are being […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . Tortured phrases
Artificial intelligence is hardly out of the news these days. Last week, for example, the AI company DeepMind, whose AI versions of board games such as chess and go have […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . The OED in The BMJ
Last week I analysed citations in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) taken from The BMJ. This week I have looked at what The BMJ said about the OED when it […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . The BMJ in the OED
Last week I analysed citations in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) taken from the Oxford Textbook of Medicine (OTM). This week I have looked at OED citations taken from The […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . The OTM in the OED
Last week I pointed out that some errors in citations from the Oxford Textbook of Medicine (OTM) had been corrected in the latest set of additions to the OED. This […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . New medical words in the OED, June 2021
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is updated every three months (“on a quarterly basis” as they put it—they mean “quarterly”). The latest list of updates and additions, published in June […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . The CAT that’s a black swan
I have been looking for biomedical black swans, unexpected findings discovered by acute observation, among discoveries marked by the inclusion of relevant terms noted in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . Black swans in biochemistry
Continuing my search for biomedical black swans, based on the words newly cited in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) from 1970 to 2020, I now turn to terms relevant to […]