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The expression for all intents and purposes has become, for some folks, an expression about purposes that are intensive.On this week’s edition of That’s…
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The acronym YOLO has gotten a new lease on life with the "YOLO flip."This week on That’s What They Say, Host Rina Miller and University of Michigan…
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The pronoun who is for people and the pronoun that is for things, except when it’s the other way around.On this week’s edition of That’s What They Say,…
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If the whole comprises the parts, it seems like the parts should not be able to comprise the whole.This week on That’s What They Say, Host Rina Miller and…
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People’s names show up in the English language in surprising places, such as "pasteurized milk" and "ham sandwiches."University of Michigan Professor of…
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Writers online, and now speakers in informal speech, are using "because" in innovative ways.This week on That’s What They Say, host Rina Miller and…
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We may think there is a “t” sound in the word hearty, as in hearty welcome, but in fact, for most of us, there isn’t.On this week’s edition of That’s What…
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It seems hard to believe that we as speakers can tolerate a word meaning two opposite things at the same time.Host Rina Miller and University of Michigan…
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Most of the time the final -ed on words is not pronounced as its own syllable, but then every once in a while, it is.This week on That’s What They Say,…
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Parsing used to be restricted to sentences, but now we can parse all kinds of things.This week on That’s What They Say, host Rina Miller and University of…