{"id":46512,"date":"2020-01-24T18:55:59","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T17:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/?p=46512"},"modified":"2020-02-03T15:51:23","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T14:51:23","slug":"jeffrey-aronson-when-i-use-a-word-new-entries-in-the-oxford-english-dictionary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2020\/01\/24\/jeffrey-aronson-when-i-use-a-word-new-entries-in-the-oxford-english-dictionary\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . New entries in the Oxford English Dictionary"},"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.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"127\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Oxford English Dictionary<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">OED<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">) is updated every three months (\u201con a quarterly basis\u201d <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/public.oed.com\/updates\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">as they put it<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2014they mean \u201cquarterly\u201d). The latest updates and additions, published in December 2019, include about 550 items, which do not have to be recently coined\u2014the dictionary is constantly catching up. There are four categories:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>1. Words that are completely new to the dictionary<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> This list (162 entries) starts with \u201ca-eastell\u201d, an obsolete Scottish word, first recorded in 1462, meaning \u201cat, in, or to the east\u201d, comparable with \u201ca-westell\u201d (1538), also newly added. It ends with \u201cyiddo\u201d (1972), \u201ca Jewish person &#8230; a supporter of or player for Tottenham Hotspur Football Club\u201d. Originally intended as a racist remark, this word has since been espoused by Jewish Spurs supporters themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>2. New sub-entries<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Compound words or phrases that are now included under other headwords (141 entries). The list starts with \u201caway in the head\/mind\u201d (1816), included under \u201caway\u201d, a colloquial expression, \u201cchiefly Irish English and Scottish\u201d, meaning \u201cin a state or condition resulting from mental disturbance; mad, out of one&#8217;s wits, in a world of one&#8217;s own; in a drunken or drug-induced state\u201d. It ends with \u201cYiddishness\u201d (1903), meaning \u201cYiddish quality or character\u201d, cognate with the Yiddish word \u201cYiddishkeit\u201d, already in the dictionary (1888).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>3. New senses of old words<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> This list (243 entries) starts with \u201canti-Semite\u201d (1867), previously listed only as a noun, but now also as an adjective, meaning \u201cCharacterized by prejudice, hostility, or discrimination towards Jewish people on religious, cultural, or ethnic grounds; anti-Semitic\u201d. It ends with \u201czoning\u201d (1977), from Nigerian English, \u201cthe system or practice of allocating nominations for certain political offices to candidates from particular regions\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>4. Additions to unrevised entries<\/i><\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">New senses, compound words, or phrases that were already included as draft entries appended to the end of existing entries, now fully incorporated (32 entries). These are also included in the other categories.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That three of the six examples I have cited are to do with Jews is pure coincidence; one begins with an <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">a<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and two with a <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">y<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and I chose the first and last entries in the lists. However, the lists do contain a striking number of words related to Jews and Judaism and words derived from Yiddish, in all 71 (13%) of the entries (listed in Table 1). The earliest citation for any of these new entries is from 1275; the most recent coinage, \u201cJewdar\u201d, dates from 2000.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In contrast, I have found only four medical terms among the new entries: Henle, mouth stick, Jewish stone, and Jewish penicillin.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A mouth stick is \u201can instrument used by a dentist, doctor, or other medical professional when examining a patient\u2019s mouth\u201d. Dating from 1912, it is designated \u201cnow rare\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Henle was the German anatomist and pathologist Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle (1809\u201385). The adjective \u201cHenlean\u201d was included in the first edition of the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">OED<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, in the fascicle published in December 1898 (Heel\u2013Hod). \u201cHenle\u201d was added in the second supplement, edited by the late Bob Burchfield and published in 1976. It included four eponyms (Table 2). Now the entry has been restructured and antedatings added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Little has been written in the bioscience literature about Jewish stone or Lapis Judaicus, the spines of fossil sea urchins, ground to a powder and taken with water, which supposedly dissolved kidney and bladder stones. W H Cobb (<em>West J Med Surg<\/em> 1851; 7(5): 371-84) wrote that Greek physicians used the Jewish stone, \u201cwhich they found in Palestine, as a remedy for strangury\u201d. Anyone for a randomized controlled trial?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jewish penicillin is a humorous name for chicken soup or chicken noodle soup (both also new entries), \u201cpopularly considered as a remedy for all ailments or valued for its supposed restorative properties\u201d. Is it effective? Well, even in the absence of good evidence, some have <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC1230870\/pdf\/cmaj_161_12_1532.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">claimed<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that it is essential. Others have <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ovidsp.dc2.ovid.com\/sp-4.03.0b\/ovidweb.cgi?WebLinkFrameset=1&amp;S=LCIJFPHFNDEBFNFLIPBKJGOGAGJDAA00&amp;returnUrl=ovidweb.cgi%3f%26TOC%3dS.sh.22.23.27.31%257c5%257c50%26FORMAT%3dtoc%26FIELDS%3dTOC%26S%3dLCIJFPHFNDEBFNFLIPBKJGOGAGJDAA00&amp;fromjumpstart=0&amp;directlink=https%3a%2f%2fovidsp.dc2.ovid.com%2fovftpdfs%2fFPEBIPOGJGFLND00%2ffs046%2fovft%2flive%2fgv023%2f00006205%2f00006205-200306000-00005.pdf&amp;filename=Chicken+Soup+Cure+May+Not+be+a+Myth.&amp;PDFIdLinkField=%2ffs046%2fovft%2flive%2fgv023%2f00006205%2f00006205-200306000-00005&amp;link_from=S.sh.22.23.27.31%7c5&amp;pdf_key=B&amp;pdf_index=S.sh.22.23.27.31&amp;D=ovft\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">reported<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that its antioxidant properties affect neutrophil function and reduce inflammation associated with viral illnesses. And it may <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/22692529\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">improve cognition<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and be <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/21537054\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">good for the soul<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/30941934\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">However<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, during an outbreak of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Campylobacter jejuni<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> infection in Seoul, chicken soup was one of the sources. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/1583247\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Allergies<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/4047121\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">hypernatraemia<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> have also been reported. On the other hand, one of the team who extracted penicillin from a <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Penicillium <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">mould<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">in 1939, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/23793259\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ernst Chain<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, was Jewish. Jewish penicillin in another sense.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Table 1.<\/b> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">New entries in the OED relating to Jews or Judaism or derived from Yidd<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ish<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-46526 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2020\/01\/aronson_yiddish.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"3460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2020\/01\/aronson_yiddish.png 641w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2020\/01\/aronson_yiddish-640x3455.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 641px) 100vw, 641px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Table 2.<\/strong> <em>Eponymous Henle<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-46520 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2020\/01\/aronson_new_words2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"644\" height=\"436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2020\/01\/aronson_new_words2.jpg 644w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2020\/01\/aronson_new_words2-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2020\/01\/aronson_new_words2-640x433.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 644px) 100vw, 644px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><em><strong>Jeffrey Aronson<\/strong>\u00a0is 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><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Competing interests:<\/strong> None declared.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"border: 1px solid black\">\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid black;text-align: left\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><b>This week&#8217;s interesting integer: 258<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2022 258 is the sum of two distinct powers of 2 = 2<sup>1<\/sup> + 2<sup>8<\/sup><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2022 258 is the sum of three cubes = 2<sup>3<\/sup> + 5<sup>3<\/sup> + 5<sup>3<\/sup><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2022 258 is the sum of three non-zero squares in three different ways: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">258 = 1<sup>2<\/sup> + 1<sup>2<\/sup> + 16<sup>2<\/sup> = 4<sup>2<\/sup> + 11<sup>2<\/sup>+ 11<sup>2<\/sup> = 5<sup>2<\/sup> + 8<sup>2<\/sup> + 13<sup>2<\/sup><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2022 258 is a sphenic number, the product of three distinct primes (2 \u00d7 3 \u00d7 43) and therefore the volume of a cuboid with sides of those lengths<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2022 Take the first prime number and add 1 (2 + 1 = 3); take the second prime number and add 2 (3 + 2 = 5); take the third prime number and add 3 (5 + 3 = 8); \u2026 258 equals the 47<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> prime number plus 47 (211 + 47 = 258)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2022 258 is both the sum of two consecutive primes (127 + 131) and the sum of four consecutive primes (59 + 61 + 67 + 71)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2022 258 is the smallest constant for a 4 \u00d7 4 magic square made from consecutive primes (from 31 to 101); the numbers in all four rows, all four columns, and both main diagonals add up to 258:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-46521 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2020\/01\/aronson_new_words_integer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"657\" height=\"105\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2020\/01\/aronson_new_words_integer.jpg 657w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2020\/01\/aronson_new_words_integer-300x48.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2020\/01\/aronson_new_words_integer-640x102.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 657px) 100vw, 657px\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is updated every three months (\u201con a quarterly basis\u201d as they put it\u2014they mean \u201cquarterly\u201d). 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