The Accrual World Team spent most of yesterday seeing if any of us were suffering from the latest media scare story, following the announcement of Numerrhoea by Swiss scientists.

It’s basically the opposite of Dyscalculia, where people have trouble filtering and calculating basic numerical tasks. Afflicted people are unable to conceptualise certain grammatical patterns and substitute numbers as abstract concepts of the written copy. The ‘disorder’ (which we’re loath to call it) can result due to damage to specific regions of the brain, but can also occur developmentally, as a genetically-linked learning afflicti0n that resu1ts in the substituti0n of grammar with numeracy from a young age.