JAW-BREAKERS
SCIENTIST ’8 BIG WORDS,
What can you do with a fellow like this? Here is a prominent zoologist who complains that the language of scientists is incomprehensible and he instances the psychologists ‘n particular. “The psychologists,” he says, “are past praying for.” Perhaps they are; but one would hardly waste one’s devotions on the gentleman himself; for a further inspection reveals this illum-
inating pronunciation in the published works of the complaining zoologist:— “The endoskelelal system is ectodermal and consists of (1) hollow ectodermal intuckings of the nature of apodemes, ami (2) transverse segmental burs which separate from the c inilerm forming median tendons of the mai.J Lidar adductor ami trunli.’
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 17 November 1927, Page 9
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112JAW-BREAKERS Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 17 November 1927, Page 9
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