Test words for dysarthriaAnd then there was also this (under "ouch ouch disease"):
Royal Artillery
Methodist Episcopal
West Register Street
[crossed out]
Massachusetts Constitution
Righteous Retribution
Irish Constabulary
Irretrievable Hippopotamus
"Good Mrs. Abigail said of me, That I had a splatter Face, like an over grown School-boy."
Sunday, January 8, 2012
"Irretrievable hippopotamus"
From Janet Malcolm's collages (NYRB) based on "the papers of an émigré psychiatrist who practiced in New York in the late 1940s and 1950s":
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