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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: Healthy choices

WebIn this view, healthful means ‘conducive to good health’ and is applied to things that promote health, while healthy means ‘possessing good health,’ and is …

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The Grammarphobia Blog: How healthy is "healthcare"

WebThe online Macmillan Dictionary, in its British and its American editions, lists “health care” as the noun and “healthcare” (no hyphen) as the adjective derived from it. …

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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 1600s …

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The Grammarphobia Blog: All well and good, again

WebIf you’re speaking specifically about a person’s health—in the sense of being “well” as opposed to “sick”—then choose “well.” That’s generally the situation today, …

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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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Is broccoli “healthy” or “healthful”

WebBefore that, the two words were used interchangeably. In fact, the Oxford English Dictionary has citations going back to the 16th century in which both “healthy” …

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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: Healthy, wealthy, and wise-isms

WebThe original proverb was first recorded in John Clarke’s Paroemiologia Anglo-Latina, a 1639 book of English and Latin proverbs: “Earely to bed and earely to rise, …

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The Grammarphobia Blog: Par for the course

WebA: The term “par” comes from an identical word in Latin that means “equality” or “that which is equal.” (Think of “parity.”) When it was first recorded in English, in 1601, …

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The Grammarphobia Blog: Congregate or congregant care

WebA: “Congregate” is overwhelmingly more popular than “congregant” as an adjective to describe group services or facilities for people, especially the elderly, who …

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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: How do you do

WebHere the adverb “how” means “in what condition or state,” the Oxford English Dictionary says. And in this sense, “how” appears in “common phrases used in inquiring …

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The Grammarphobia Blog: Can a ‘regime’ be a ‘regimen’

WebA: The word “regime” can refer to either a government (especially an authoritarian one) or a systematic way of doing something, as in a diet or exercise …

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The Grammarphobia Blog: The holistic truth

WebA: The adjective “holistic,” according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is relatively new, a creation of the 1920s, but its “w”-less spelling has older origins. The …

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The Grammarphobia Blog: Why ‘well-heeled’ means well-to-do

WebA: Yes, the use of “well-heeled” to mean well-to-do is indeed derived from the verb “heel” and adjective “heeled” used in reference to a gamecock fitted with sharp …

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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: Why surgery is an operation

WebPerhaps because the surgical sense is one of the oldest meanings of the word. For nearly 600 years, English speakers have used “operation” to mean “a surgical …

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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 care of …

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The Grammarphobia Blog: As bad or worse than

WebA: Ouch! There’s a missing link in that headline about the legislation proposed by Senators Bill Cassidy (R-LA) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC). The headline …

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The Grammarphobia Blog: Advocacy English

WebThe noun “advocate” (pronounced AD-vuh-kut) was first recorded in English in the 1300s, according to the Oxford English Dictionary. It came into the language from …

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The Grammarphobia Blog: I left my heart in … Frisco

WebThe message, published in the journal Public Health Reports in June 1900, was sent to a California quarantine officer after an outbreak of bubonic plague in San …

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