History of measurement units of length referred to above and the Mesopotamian cubit were used in the 3rd millennium BC and are the earliest known units used by ancient peoples to measure length. The units of length used in ancient India included the dhanus, or dhanush (bow), the krosa (cry, or cow-call) and the yojana (stage). The common cubit was the length of the forearm from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger. It was divided into the span of the hand or the length between the tip of little finger to the tip of the thumb (one-half cubit), the palm
Tip of the tongue or daily life. This disorder is called anomic aphasia when acquired by brain damage, usually from a head injury, stroke, or dementia. The tip of the tongue phenomenon has implications for research in psycholinguistics, memory, and metacognition. The term "tip of the tongue" is borrowed from colloquial usage, and possibly a calque from the French phrase "avoir le mot sur le bout de la langue" ("having the word on the tip of the tongue"). The tip of the tongue phenomenon was first described as a psychological phenomenon in the text "The Principles of Psychology" by William James (1890), although he