{"id":33549,"date":"2015-03-06T16:25:37","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T15:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/?p=33549"},"modified":"2015-03-06T16:25:37","modified_gmt":"2015-03-06T15:25:37","slug":"jeffrey-aronson-when-i-use-a-word-pah-disgusting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2015\/03\/06\/jeffrey-aronson-when-i-use-a-word-pah-disgusting\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . Pah! Disgusting!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2014\/12\/jeffrey_aronson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-32935\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2014\/12\/jeffrey_aronson-223x300.jpg\" alt=\"jeffrey_aronson\" width=\"155\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2014\/12\/jeffrey_aronson-223x300.jpg 223w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2014\/12\/jeffrey_aronson.jpg 446w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 155px) 100vw, 155px\" \/><\/a>Emily Colas\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/a\/patientstales.org\/home\/home\/mental-health#TOC-Obsessive-compulsive-disorder\"><em>Just Checking<\/em><\/a> is a riveting, often unsettling, account of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Reading it got my stream of consciousness ruminating about the link between disgust and stereotypy.<\/p>\n<p>Neasden is a byword for ordinariness; Wigan for northernness; and East Cheam, at least since Tony Hancock, for supposed rundown provinciality.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2015\/03\/aronson_disgusting.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-33551\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2015\/03\/aronson_disgusting-195x300.png\" alt=\"aronson_disgusting\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2015\/03\/aronson_disgusting-195x300.png 195w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2015\/03\/aronson_disgusting.png 353w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/a>Aberdeen is associated with miserliness (picture), although that may be a canard that Aberdonians foster to avoid expenditure :). And Tunbridge Wells is stereotypically associated with disgust.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDisgusted, Tunbridge Wells\u201d describes someone with strongly conservative political views, who writes outraged letters to newspapers. \u201cYour obedient servant, \u2018Disgusted\u2019\u201d appeared in a letter to <em>The Times<\/em> in 1884. The full phrase is thought to have been introduced in the BBC radio show <em>Much Binding in the Marsh<\/em>\u00a0in the 1940s, by comedian Richard Murdoch (1907\u201390), last seen on television playing Uncle Tom in <em>Rumpole of the Baile<\/em>y, but famous over many years for radio shows such as <em>Band Wagon<\/em>\u00a0and <em>The Men from the Ministry<\/em>. Wallas Eaton played a character called \u201cDisgusted, Tunbridge Wells\u201d in another radio show, <em>Take it From Here<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>When the BBC called a complaints programme <em>Disgusted, Tunbridge Wells<\/em>\u00a0in 1978, the <em>Kent &amp; Sussex Courier<\/em> reported that those living in Tunbridge Wells were disgusted. But Tunbridge has long been belittled; in E M Forster\u2019s <em>A Room With View<\/em> (1908) Charlotte Bartlett says \u201cI am used to Tunbridge Wells, where we are all hopelessly behind the times.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Disgusted comes from the Latin privative prefix dis- plus the verb gustare, to taste. Dislike the taste of something? Spit it out\u2014puh! And the same sound, the voiceless bilabial plosive phoneme <em>p<\/em>, expresses disgust for anything. \u201cPah!\u201d says Hamlet, disgusted by the smell of Yorick\u2019s skull. King Lear is even more emphatic: \u201cThere\u2019s hell, there\u2019s darkness, \/ There\u2019s the sulphury pit, burning, scalding, \/ Stench, consummation. Fie, fie, fie, pah, pah! \/ Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, \/ to sweeten my imagination.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When <em>p<\/em> becomes <em>b<\/em> (the voiced bilabial plosive) we get bah. Pooh-Bah, the \u201cLord High Everything Else\u201d in the <em>Mikado<\/em>, is onomastically doubly disgusting. \u201cPooh-Bah,\u201d wrote G K Chesterton, \u201cis something more than a satire; he is the truth. It is true of British politics . . . that we meet the same man twenty times as twenty different officials . . . The general result can be expressed only in the two syllables (to be uttered with the utmost energy of the lungs): Pooh-Bah.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Indo-European root PU, decay or rot, gives us words that reflect repugnance. Greek \u03c0\u03cd\u03bf\u03bd (puon) and Latin pus give us pyaemia, empyema, and pyorrhea, pustule, purulent, and suppuration. From Greek \u03c0\u1fe1\u03c4\u03b9\u03b6\u03b5\u03b9\u03bd (putidzein), to spit out, comes \u03c0\u03c4\u1f7b\u03b1\u03bb\u03bf\u03bd (p\u2019tualon), saliva. Ptyalin is the salivary amylase that catalyses the hydrolysis of polysaccharides. Ptyalism is a rare adverse reaction to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/1633762\">digitalis<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/10656043\">artemisinin<\/a>; it can also occur in pregnancy (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC3364630\/\">ptyalism gravidarum<\/a>), when it is associated with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/23117249\">hyperemesis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Latin putris, rotten, gives putrid, putrescent, and putrescine (tetramethylenediamine), a foul smelling amine formed by the breakdown of amino acids in putrefying dead flesh. Putrescine and cadaverine contribute to the odours of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/11905111\">halitosis<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/23405259\">bacterial vaginosis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The polecat family is <em>Putorius foetidus<\/em> and a putois is a paintbrush of polecat&#8217;s hair. A polecat was once a slang term for a prostitute, as were pucelle and putain, loan words from the French. Consonantal shift of <em>p<\/em> to <em>f<\/em> gives foul, filthy, and defile. A fulmar is a foul smelling gull-like bird of the petrel family. Polecats are also called foumarts (foul martens).<\/p>\n<p>If you pronounce \u201cpejorative\u201d as it used to be pronounced, with the accent on the <em>first<\/em> syllable, you get the full force of the disgust it conveys. Other words beginning with a <em>p<\/em> have similar force: pee, piss, and pish, pimp, pizzle, pox, prick and prig, punk, and the childish words for excrement poo and poop. On seeing them grunting and squelching in the mire, Rowley, the old farm labourer in <em>Crome Yellow<\/em> by Aldous Huxley, voices his disgust: \u201cRightly is they called pigs.\u201d Stress the <em>p<\/em> when you say it.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Jeffrey Aronson<\/strong> is a clinical pharmacologist, working in the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine in Oxford&#8217;s Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences. He is also president emeritus of the British Pharmacological Society.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Competing interests:\u00a0None declared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emily Colas\u2019s Just Checking is a riveting, often unsettling, account of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Reading it got my stream of consciousness ruminating about the link between disgust and stereotypy. 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