Mertcan Bulak: Aphasia is rather different from slips of the tongue, in that it is far from ‘normal’. The name aphasia comes from a Greek word which means literally ‘without speech’, though is widely used in both the UK and USA to mean ‘impaired speech’. Aphasia covers an enormous range of speech problems. At one end of the range we find people who can only say a single word such as O DEAR, O DEAR, O DEAR, or more usually, a swear word such as DAMN, DAMN, DAMN. One unproved theory is that people who have had a severe stroke sometimes find their speech ‘petrified’ into the word they were uttering as the stroke occurred. At the other end of the scale are people with only occasional wordfinding difficulties – it is not always clear where true aphasia ends and normal slips of the tongue begin.

Aphasia is rather different from slips of the tongue, in that it is far from ‘normal’. The name aphasia comes from a Greek word which means literally ‘without speech’, though is widely used in both the UK and USA to mean ‘impaired speech’. Aphasia covers an enormous range of speech problems. At one end of the range we find people who can only say a single word such as O DEAR, O DEAR, O DEAR, or more usually, a swear word such as DAMN, DAMN, DAMN. One unproved theory is that people who have had a severe stroke sometimes find their speech ‘petrified’ into the word they were uttering as the stroke occurred. At the other end of the scale are people with only occasional wordfinding difficulties – it is not always clear where true aphasia ends and normal slips of the tongue begin.

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