O. S. Miettinen

2011

The reader here might wonder what a chachem is, but not after reading Rosten: it’s a great scholar, a clever and wise learned person. On the other hand, though, the reader here, like that grandmother, likely presumes to know what a doctor and a disease are; but (s)he might do well consulting a suitable source on this too – a contemporary medical dictionary won’t do (cf. sect. I – 1. 1 here) – insofar as (s)he is enough of a chachem to really care about the meanings (s)he associates with words.