News at Eleven: One advantage of the aphasia was

that Paul [West] could produce wildly creative snippets of language, because there were no rules any more. Diane [Ackerman]'s favourite new pet names include Spy Elf of the Morning Hallelujahs and Parakeet of the Lissom Star. She laughs. "I don't know where they came from, but they're wonderful. Even though Paul had trouble finding the words he had learned when he was little, he had retained the big words he had learned as a grownup. He would come out of the bedroom and say 'Where's my cantilever of light?' I suppose you can only know that this means a velour tracksuit when you have been living with someone for four decades."

from The Guardian: When the words stopped

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