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Should go with the standard spelling. English is replete with words that are pronounced differently in different parts of the country and world. Each dialect has a standard spelling for words (eg. color vs. colour). There’s no reason to change the spelling of a word due to different accents.

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Exactly the lesson I needed! Still useful after thirteen years.

It has to do with whether you emphasize the EL part of the word or not. Cancel, emphasis on CAN, the word becomes canceled. In compel, the emphasis is on the EL, the word becomes compelled. Travel, traveled. Repel, emphasis is on EL, repelled. Rebel (as a verb) becomes Rebelled.

Great interview! A few thoughts: - It's my understanding that modern African-American English was influenced by southern European-American English, which in turn was influenced by English dialects from specific areas of Great Britain. If that's correct, it would be interesting to hear more about those connections, and about any similarities among English usage in those three cultures today. - The first time I ever saw "chitterlings" in a grocery store, I wondered what in the world was this strange food that I had never heard of. Finally I realized that "chitterlings" was the more formal spelling of "chit'lins," which of course I had heard of (though I'm still not quite sure what they are). - "What had happened was..." and "What happened was..." both sound correct to me. However, they both sound like a roundabout way of saying something (kind of like a sentence written in passive voice).

Pronunciation or pronounciation

Let's eat, Grandma. (Punctuation saves lives!)

Very interesting.

Loving this interview! Super interesting and informative. I’m a copy editor listening in Canada with roots in Nova Scotia and in Washington State. Lastly: 🎶Drop the needle!🎶😉🎉❤️

Is it actually a rule?

Half of a byte is a nibble, amd while i get why it just sounds so silly

❎️ I doubt that that would be it ✅️ I doubt that would be it

_Backward_ is an adjective and _backwards_ is an adverb

Did you reference Richard Bach's "Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah" for any reason other than laying an Easter Egg?

I went to your channel and watched some videos, but there are many problems in the videos, . I can do this if you want.

Hi Mignon Fogarty ..! Hope you are well. I visited your UA-cam channel and your video making is very good. Your contents Ideas are very good. Thank you so much.

Fell. Hmm. What about 'wandering the fells'?

Love your cat.

It's spelled ESPRESSO and pronounced esPRESsoh, (in Italian esPRLESSawoh). You can thank an episode of F Troop (1966-67) for contributing to the erroneous EXpresso.

Tell me you didn't watch Dune without saying you didn't watch Dune. They don't retreat into the desert, they're brought there to be killed. They're brought there in a helicopter, but an ornithoptere.

Boo: speed, online, etc. I want slow, careful lettering, a cooling coffee within reach.

Dad was addicted to NYT crossies and now at 73 I still am. Wish you had more responses.

I can't find episodes 992 and 993 . . . ?

Bear. Arctos. Ursus. Bruin . Brown. Taboo. Our ancestors had issues.

Fell beast.

Eww! You are too much boring 😤

Really so cool. My mother tongue is tonal language Lusei, we are one clan of the Mizo tribe in Mizoram, India. My research is also related to the tonality and musical aspects of Mizo language. There are also tribes in Meghalaya where people's names are sung rather than called out in speech, they are able to identify their own name by the pitch alone.

Immune to or immune from?

great interview! thank you for sharing

Also remember that after the witch trials in America we had a vampire craze here in the 1800s. Many think some of the elements of this time period were also used by Bram Stroker. Look up Mercy Brown....

My understanding of “fell” was always in the sense of being damned. Fallen angels come to mind. Felon hadn’t crossed my mind. But other than implying evil, there’s also the idea of hills/mountains. I live not far from a road called the Fellsway. And I’ve done some fell running, as well.

Great episode as usual. I always figured that the "dog" in "hot dog" came from the fact that a hot dog is shaped a little bit like a dachshund. Hot dogs have their roots in Germany, and dachshunds are a German dog breed, so it kind of makes sense. But maybe it's a coincidence rather than an actual explanation of the name.

Hello, Mignon! Greetings from a cloudy and cold São Paulo, Brazil! It's been a while since I "showed up" here and I hope that all is well in your little corner of the world. Since Brazilian Portuguese language has a gender system of referring to animate and inanimate words, I can imagine how hard it might be for non-native Brazilian Portuguese speakers to learn the intrisicacies of the language and how to employ them correctly. Nevertheless, I still find American English fascinating and, at the same time, quite challenging to master its basics. At any rate, thanks so much for this very interesting video, and I hope you have a fabulous day and a wonderful remainder of your week. Bye!

This is a great conversation! I like "funner" and "funnest" and think they are acceptable. I like the archaic word "vouchsafe."

My Mexican coworker still insists it’s called expresso

I saw Jess collaborating with Rob (of Robwords) and was impressed by her profound knowledge. Her vocal 'fry' interests me, too-as with the Chinese 'perfect pitch' theory discussed here, I'm researching how this voice feature originates in early development. In particular, one wonders why (unlike a local dialect) it is not adopted quasi-universally by girls raised in one area. Here in England, it is still much rarer than in the USA.

Haha good one! 😂

Yep. Correct.

I recently finished my science fiction epic at about 120,000 words. And I am tinkering with and reediting my back cover blurb. Is 287 words too long for a blurb or is that okay?

Seriously, only 5 comments, after 7 months in (as of June 1, 2024)??!! Come on, Word-Lovers, show some love - feed the Almighty Algorithm!! :-)

Adam wasn't the monster. The doctor was. If you were to fast forward, the analogy applies, but to the creator of the thing that wielded havoc. Take from that what you will in our modern predicament in politics.

I do know I can't stop the flood, but I got my heart broken when Grammar Girl said " close proximity to" when it could have been said " in proximity with "

Your content is so much fun and educational

It drives me bananas listening to a narrator say, "ay" over and over and over again, as if you must say, "AY" during a performance.

Kindly, make a video on sentence structure ❤

Didn’t think I would learn anything new, boy was I wrong! Fascinating information. Subscribed!!✨

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I 'm fairly sure that one of Mary Shelley's inspirations was the recent experimentation by Galvani - making the legs of dead frogs twitch by applying an electric current. Somewhere, I read about an electric shock administered to a recently-hanged criminal, which resulted in the corpse becoming briefly animated - grim, indeed - and I hope this was only a physical reaction.

The word is actually a coloquialism.. Where l was raised in Northumberland it means you are really tired. As for old animals being slaughtered,...l am not familiar with that meaning..?