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The Grammarphobia Blog: Healthy choices

WEBQ: A friend has a soup container with a label that reads “fresh healthy delicious.” Is “healthy” correct? I realize it’s supposed to mean you’ll be healthy if you eat …

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The Grammarphobia Blog: How healthy is "healthcare"

WEBBecause familiar nouns that are compounds tend to become joined over time, as with “daycare,” “childcare,” and “eldercare.”. In fact, our Google searches …

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The Grammarphobia Blog: “Healthy” vs. “healthily”

WEBMost readers of the blog are probably familiar with the traditional view on the adjectives: a food is “healthful” while a person who eats it is “healthy.”. This is a …

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The Grammarphobia Blog: A risky preposition

WEBWe’ve concluded that both “risk of” and “risk for” are common when the object of the preposition is the noun or noun phrase for the danger—the disease or other …

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The Grammarphobia Blog: All well and good, again

WEBAll well and good, again. Q: You’ve written about “well” and “good,” but here are some examples that still aren’t clear to me: (1) “Is everything well/good with you?”. …

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Is broccoli “healthy” or “healthful”

WEBQ: I’ve always believed that foods are healthful and people are healthy, but nobody seems to observe that distinction nowadays. What do you think?

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The Grammarphobia Blog: Apostrophic illnesses

WEBApostrophic illnesses. February 3, 2016. Q: I’m a physician who’s irritated by the increasing tendency for writers to omit the apostrophe in a disease named for a …

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The Grammarphobia Blog: How well is wellness

WEBA: Yes, “wellness” is a real word, though quite a few people (perhaps including you) think it’s a not-so-cutesy whatever. When the noun entered English in the …

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The Grammarphobia Blog: Is laughter infectious or contagious

WEBSo, “laughter” and “fun” can be described as either “contagious” or “infectious,” though they’re more likely to be called “infectious.”. Now, let’s look at the …

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The Grammarphobia Blog: Preexisting conditions

WEBThe Oxford English Dictionary’s entry for “pre-existing condition” defines the noun phrase as an insurance term for “a disease or disorder from which a person taking …

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The Grammarphobia Blog: Badged, badgered, and bewildered

WEBGrammar, etymology, usage, and more, brought to you by Patricia T. O’Conner and Stewart Kellerman

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The Grammarphobia Blog: A stormy courtroom

WEBIt was first recorded in writing in about 1205, according to the Oxford English Dictionary . Back then, its meaning was “to draw or pull along, or from one place to …

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The Grammarphobia Blog: Doc in a box

WEBThe expression “doc in the box” (with “the” instead of “a”) first appeared in the Times in a Dec. 5, 1982, article in which a doctor dismisses clinics at shopping centers: …

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The Grammarphobia Blog: Curbing your dog

WEBA: The short message conveyed by the words “Curb Your Dog” is “Take your dog to the curb.”. That’s the literal meaning. But the longer message, at least since the …

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The Grammarphobia Blog: Why “children,” not “childs”

WEBThis -en ending was so popular in Middle English that it was even added to existing irregular plurals, so that brethre (plural of “brother”) became brethren and childer …

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The Grammarphobia Blog: Most important or importantly

WEBThe Cambridge Grammar of the English Language, by Rodney Huddleston and Geoffrey K. Pullum, would categorize each version, “more important” or “more …

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The Grammarphobia Blog: Occupational therapy

WEBThe usual style is to lowercase “occupational therapy” unless it’s part of a title (like “School of Occupational Therapy”). But the usual style will only get you so far. If …

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The Grammarphobia Blog: Slip sliding away

WEBHowever, the writer points out two problems with this theory: (1) “upon” is a more formal word than children would normally use, and (2) “slide upon” is not known to …

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The Grammarphobia Blog: A dark and goosey night

WEBA dark and goosey night. Q: Time flies. Halloween will be here before long. Last year, you talked about names for the night before Halloween. When growing up in …

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The Grammarphobia Blog: A happy ending

WEBThe OED defines “happy ending” as “an ending in a novel, play, etc., in which the plot achieves a happy resolution (esp. by marriage, continued good health, etc.), of …

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The Grammarphobia Blog: Politics and prose

WEBA: “Politics” can be used with either a singular or a plural verb, depending on your meaning. In general, it’s singular. It’s plural only when it means a particular set of …

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How did a “caretaker” become a “caregiver”

WEBIt’s ironic that “give” and “take” are opposites, while “caregiver” and “caretaker” mean the same thing. Such people not only give care to others, but they take …

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