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- Title
The Ubiquitous -nyms of English.
- Authors
Aronson, Stanley M.
- Abstract
The article offers information on the etymology of English words with -nyms and on several research which were conducted during the month of December in the U.S. According to the author, a wide variety of words in the English language, which include patrician, metronym, and parametrium, has its roots from the Greek alphabet. It also explains that the word acronym comes from the Greek prefix "akron," which means an extremity and the word pseudonym comes from the prefix "pseudo," which means false or feigned. Details related to the research on the two kinds of clinics which was conducted by Elliot Washburn in December 1920 and the study on the infant mortality rate in Rhode Island on December 1960 are also included.
- Subjects
UNITED States; ENGLISH etymology; MEDICAL research; GREEK language; VOCABULARY; ETYMOLOGY; SUFFIXES &; prefixes (Grammar); WASHBURN, Elliot; INFANT mortality; SEMANTICS
- Publication
Medicine & Health Rhode Island, 2010, Vol 93, Issue 12, p387
- ISSN
1086-5462
- Publication type
Article