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[Patientone]

What is ...  oestrogen ?

I understand it's a form of estrogen .. but don't get what the o signifies?

Is it something different?

[Taz2]

Hi - as far as I know oestrogen and estrogen are the same. Oestrogen is the English spelling and Estrogen the American spelling.

Taz x

[Hurdity]

Hi Patientone

Just to add also that the the "o" is part of the word's origin and its correct pronunciation. I don't know why a lot of these double letters have been removed in US - the same happens for "ae" together - the a is removed.

The word comes from Latin oestrus - pronounced eestrus. Oestrogen should also be pronouned the same way ie "eestrogen". In US they have removed the "o" and now pronounce it with a short "e" as in "get", but this means the clue to its etymology is lost.

Well you did ask!!!!

Hurdity x

[Ju Ju]

Hurdity, is there anything you don't know? !!! 

[Joyce]

Learn something new every day. 

[Patientone]

Wow, very interesting !

To me, (in U.S.) it looks like the words are long, lol.

Gynecologist is plenty long enough with out adding extra vowels 

[Hurdity]

Ju ju - I knew it came from Latin/Greek but then I just looked up the rest.

Patientone - that's another example! It comes from Greek gynaekos = woman. Now that is worth remembering in full!!!!! 

Hurdity x

[Patientone]

Patientone - that's another example! It comes from Greek gynaekos = woman. Now that is worth remembering in full!!!!! 

Hurdity x