Josh Clark

Were you familiar with that word before?

I don't think, you know, I'm 49 years old.

I don't think I'd ever heard sneezing being called sternutation.

Oh, man, I just remembered I'm 44 now.

So you got me beat, but I'm in the same boat with you.

Yeah, I never heard that, but that is what, if you're a scientist, well, if you're a scientist and you want to be real stiff, you probably say sternutation.

If you're a scientist that wants to be friends with people, you'll still probably say sneezing.

I mean, it sounds super clinical, but it's actually really old.

I think the first appearance of it is in a text from 1576.

It sounds old.

To me, it sounds clinical, but there's also a couple derivative words.

Sternutative or sternutatory are things that make you sneeze.

And Howard Stern, bubba booey.

A chewy.

So we're talking sneezing, obviously, because we just discoursed on sternutation.

I'm adding an extra syllable there, aren't I?

Sternutation.

That's the Josh Clark way.

Why do I have to complicate things?

We're talking about sneezing.