Your New Favorite Word
Episode 1.17
Jamis takes us back to the early days of the word “nostalgia”, and its unlikely roots in medical diagnoses. Tessa reviews a picture book about the life of Dr. Peter Mark Roget, creator of the famous (well-known, widely-recognized, familiar, proverbial) thesaurus.
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Highlights
- 00:42 — “Mad Men” episode, “The Wheel”
- 01:43 — Etymology of “nostalgia”
- 02:45 — Nostalgia as a medical diagnosis
- 07:44 — Book review
- 10:25 — Biographical info about Roget
- 15:46 — Etymology of “thesaurus”
Show Notes
- Clip from “Mad Men” of Don Draper pitching the slide carousel
- “Coming Home Again: Johannes Hofer, Edmund Spenser, and Premodern Nostalgia” by Alex Davis (Article about Hofer’s dissertation)
- The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus (Amazon)
- Peter Mark Roget (Wikipedia)
- Merriam-Webster article on Roget’s Thesaurus
- Current (8th Edition) of Roget’s International Thesaurus (Amazon)