JUST WORDS
Abstract
In this issue (p. 532) The Journal begins a new feature on words; more specifically, on English words; still more specifically, on the medical writer's use of English words. The general title of the new feature is "Just Words." This is meant to be a pun. It represents, on the one hand, an English adaptation of the weighty French phrase, le mot juste, implying a search for sound usage, and suggests on the lighter side that nothing more serious than just words will be...