Conversations with my patients can be very revealing. “I know you say they’re ace, Doc, but I can’t take these tablets.” “Why not, Pat?” “They give me a terrible cough. […]
Jeff Aronson’s Words
Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . No
“Aah,” the maximally low and back rounded vowel sound, produced by opening your mouth and glottis and phonating, is not the only phoneme that could have formed the first linguistic […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . Say “Aaaaaaah”
We may not know what the first spoken word was, but we can be pretty sure that the first uttered sound (Greek φώνημα) was a phoneme, a unit of sound […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . First things first
Which words came first? And whence comes “first?” In his Historiai, Book II, Herodotus tells how an Egyptian king, Psamtik (he calls him Psammetichus), undertook an experiment. He entrusted two […]
Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . Blogging on
What links blogs to logs (wooden ones)? The Sailor’s Word Book: An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms (1867), compiled by Admiral W[illiam] H[enry] Smyth and revised for publication by Vice […]