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The patient's writing describing her symptoms (a). Prominent errors on spelling and preposition (b). She made mistakes as following; "importent" for "important", "specialist" for "specialists", "tryed" for "tried", "onse" for "once" and "on me" for "with me". [To view this figure in color, please see the online version of this Journal.]
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Sandifer) in October 1938. She presented with progressive disturbance of language unfolding over four years (Figure 1a). Samples of the patient's written discourse contain repeated references to this increased sensitivity to sounds (Figure 1b). She made similar errors when writing (Figure 1b), for example, rendering "tried" as "tryed" and "once" as "onse".
Lists of words whose meanings the patient no longer understood (compiled with the help of her friend). [To view this figure in color, please see the online version of this Journal.]
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She brought with her extensive lists of words whose meanings she no longer knew, prepared with the assistance of a friend (Figure 2); examples include "kettle", "saucepan", "floor", "fountain", and "desert".
Newspaper passage for reading aloud. Words on which the patient made regularization errors are circled in red. [To view this figure in color, please see the online version of this Journal.]
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Reading aloud from a newspaper clipping (Figure 3) was slow and labored and marred by regularization errors, for example, sounding the first vowel in "vacant" as short and sounding the "s" in "Viscount".
Pictures for assessing visual object recognition. See text. [To view this figure in color, please see the online version of this Journal.]
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When shown a cartoon including petrol pumps (Figure 4a), she interpreted these as clocks and failed to recognize a balloon in the shape of an airship; she misinterpreted a wedding photograph (Figure 4b) as a funeral on the strength of the churchyard tombstones in the scene.