Suggestions to medical writers / by George M. Gould.

  • George M. Gould
Date:
1900
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Credit: Suggestions to medical writers / by George M. Gould. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ENGLISH. LATIN. ENGLISH. LATIN. Sight.Visus. Vein .Vena. Hearing .... Auditus. Pain .Poena. Touch.Tactus. Dog.Canis. Smell.Olfactus. Rat.Sorex. Taste.Gustus. Cow .YTacca. Lame.Claudus. Hen.Gallina. Blind .... Caecus Goose.Anser. Deaf .Surdus. Cat.Felis. Dumb.Mutus. Horse.Equus. Sick .Morbidus. Pig.Porcus. Fire.Ignis. Duck.Anas. Air.Aer. Bull.Taurus. Water.Aqua. Earth.Terra. Rain.Pluvia. Clouds .... Nubes. Storm.Procella. Hail.Grando. Thaw.Glacii Solutio. Frost ..... Gelu. Heat.Fervor. Wind.Ventus. Cold .Frigus. Work.Labor. Here are seventy words, all but three of which are of one syllable. To express these most used of all words the Romans had to enunciate one hundred and sixty-six syllables. This is a convincing proof of the compactness and decisiveness of the Englishman’s char¬ acter, not unallied with his taciturnity, his control of ter¬ ritory seventy seven times as extensive as the homefarm, and a foreign investment of twenty-five thousand million dollars. I do not know if others have noticed one method whereby this shortening of our language is proved to be an active process today : the tendency despite logic and repugnance to throw accents back from penult to ante¬ penult, and even to the fourth, sometimes to the fifth syllable. We no longer say re-ven'-ne, etc., and in many such words as for' mid a-ble the trend is obvious. In com¬ pound words the accent is thrown back half-a-dozen syl¬ lables. The one striking result is to make us disregard and ecen scorn the ending syllables, and finally to lop them off entirely, as in domestical, and a thousand similar
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