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There is a saying that a new word added to one's vocabulary is worth $10, so I avidly reached for my Webster's Twentieth Century Unabridged when my eyes lit upon "logorrheic'' on p. 8 of your Nov. 2 issue. I felt cheated when I found nothing between logometric and Logos. Rather than lose $10 worth of culture I am risking 3? to ask you to elucidate...
...issue you use the word "logorrheic"-I nearly fell off the chair when I read it, hurried to my Oxford Dictionary (last edition) but it wasn't listed. This morning I couldn't find it in the office dictionary and now I am bothered. Where did you get it and what does it mean? MAURICE AGGELER...
Logorrheic is an adjective founded upon the Greek roots logos (word) and rhein (to flow). Webster's New International Dictionary lists the noun TIME used adjectivally: "Logorrhea (psychopathological). Excessive and often incoherent talkativeness...
Strange to relate, TIME erred again. In your issue of Oct. 23 in re Surgeon General Parran's crusade against Syphilis you state that neither National or Columbia will allow the word to be used over their networks. On Aug. 25 on invitation I talked before the Montreal Rotary Club for 30 minutes about Syphilis, using the word several times. The Rotary Club received many comments from radio listeners both in U. S. and Canada. The talk was not censored before being broadcast due to Columbia's faith that Rotary would not broadcast anything offensive or objectional...