{"id":22908,"date":"2026-01-02T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/i-taste-words-lexical-gustatory-synaesthesia\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T14:00:00","slug":"i-taste-words-lexical-gustatory-synaesthesia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/?p=22908","title":{"rendered":"I taste words. \u2018Bob\u2019 is like a milk chocolate Easter egg on my tongue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Monique Todorovski, a clinical administrator, shares her experience of lexical-gustatory synaesthesia<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Read more in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/series\/the-way-i-feel\" rel=\"noopener\">the way I feel series<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When I met my husband and found out his name was Philip, I felt conflicted. I liked him as a person but his name tasted like crunchy green pears and I don\u2019t like green pears at all. My compromise was to call him Phil, which tastes more like stewed pear \u2013 sweeter and not as crunchy. It\u2019s just a nicer-tasting name in my mind.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately I was 30 by the time I met Phil, so I had an explanation for my word-taste associations, after years of strange looks from family and friends. I had lexical-gustatory synaesthesia, one of the rarest forms of the phenomenon, in which words or sounds trigger taste sensations. Researchers estimate it affects just 0.2% of the population.<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2026\/jan\/02\/i-taste-words-lexical-gustatory-synaesthesia\" rel=\"noopener\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<strong>Source:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2026\/jan\/02\/i-taste-words-lexical-gustatory-synaesthesia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/>\nRead full article at www.theguardian.com<br \/>\n<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:14px; color:#555;\">\n<strong>Medical Disclaimer:<\/strong><br \/>\nThis content is for informational and educational purposes only.<br \/>\nIt does not replace professional medical advice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monique Todorovski, a clinical administrator, shares her experience of lexical-gustatory synaesthesia Read more in the way I feel series When I met my husband and found out his name was Philip, I felt conflicted. I liked him as a person but his name tasted like crunchy green pears and I don\u2019t like green pears at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22909,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1747],"tags":[12453,12455,12456,12457,12454,12451,12458,12452],"class_list":["post-22908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fitness-lifestyle","tag-bob","tag-chocolate","tag-easter","tag-egg","tag-milk","tag-taste","tag-tongue","tag-words"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}