Just found out that Marcel Wingate, a speech pathologist I'd corresponded with via email in the course of doing research on various stuttering stories, died last November at the age of 86. He's best known for his definition of stuttering, which was considered definitive from 1964 onward: repetition of a sound, syllable, or one-syllable word; silent or audible prolongation; or both.

I always liked his notes -- he was so vehement in his criticisms of Wendell Johnson, I half expected him to show up at my doorstep to make me write how much Johnson had damaged the field of speech pathology, and how clinicians still operated with latent diagnosogenicism. He was dedicated to rooting it out. I hope it worked. I wish he'd been able to see Um...