i mean, a lot of peer reviewed articles in the databases i have access to for my job use it. but it's not a consumer word.gg518 wrote: Even if it wasn't... Why use a word that only appears in a couple of medical journals back in the early 1900s? As you've said this is before spell check programs and publications would often be released with mistakes. Every single source I've found that used it (and theres really only a small handful) have other typos in them. It most definately IS a made up word.
So you made a typo, why act like it's on purpose? This reminded me of Jerry when his shirt was backwards. Instead of actually looking into it he just pretends like he meant it that way so CE he's so afraid of looking stupid
here's literally just the first example.
it's from a biology database, so it makes sense why he would know the word.. not all scientific/medical terms are for use in everyday conversation. most of them are hopelessly antiquated in this language. working in science, with english as my second language, this is something i've had to figure out on my own, lol!
this is another journal that came up in my database search, with a hit on the word 40 times in the journal, but my institution does not have access. http://journals.sagepub.com.proxy.libra ... a/home/trj
edit: obviously not white knighting for kooks here, i just think we ought to be specific in how we call him dumb