posted by: The Owner in Phobia Diagnosis and Treatment Many people have different phobias and most of them can be catered for in some way or another.Aside from the usual phobias there are some very obscure ones that only a few people suffer from....
Counter Classical Conditioning:This is the first treatment I recommend, and it is especially effective in mild or moderate cases. I’m doing it now topreventthunder phobia in Will, who is one of the most sound sensitive dogs I know, but so far has not reacted with any anxiety to thunder...
“Roadside hotel-keepers are every now and then calling the miners’ attention to their ‘square meals’: by which is meant full meals, in contradistinction to the imperfect dinner a man has to put up with on the mountains.” (From the Sept. 19, 1868, issue of All the Year Round, a...
InThe Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table,Holmes declared: “Homicide andverbicide—that is, violent treatment of a word with fatal results to its legitimate meaning, which is its life—are alike forbidden.” Help support the Grammarphobia Blog with yourdonation. ...
In my case, I opted for an effective treatment for many social fears — slow exposure. My phobia was so intense that the only person I could talk to over the phone was my mother. So that’s where I started. When she called, I acknowledged the stab of anxiety but focused on hear...
Getting back to etymology, the first of these words for a commoner to show up in English was the noun “plebeian,” which was originally used in translating the classical Latinplebeius, a member of the plebs or common people in ancient Rome. The firstOEDcitation is from a translation of th...
Nothing else in Hitler’s record is comparable to his treatment of the Jews. … The word has gone forth that … the Jewish peoples are to be exterminated. … The conscience of humanity stands aghast.” We couldn’t find a more complete example of the News Chronicle citation elsewhere, ...
Probably because firefighters have a tradition of visiting their counterparts in other cities, especially to attend the funerals of those who have died in the line of duty. And traditionally, they’re given red-carpet treatment. InFirefighters: Their Lives in Their Own Words(1988), Dennis Smith...
Americans, and many speakers of British English, typically say, “Did he use to drive a Volvo?”…“No, he didn’t use to drive a Volvo.” But sometimes, sentences like these get a different treatment in British English: “Used he to drive a Volvo?”…”Usedn’t he to drive a Volv...