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A Word, Please: What do you know of the tiny word 'of'?

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For a tiny word, “of” causes a lot of trouble. It pops up where it doesn’t belong in sentences like “I should of known.” It baffles even word-savvy users in expressions like “too big of a deal.” And it has an uncanny power to promote wordy, inefficient prose.
If you grew up speaking English, you never really had to learn “of.” Unlike “photosynthesis” or “gerrymander” or “noun” or any other word that teachers actively teach, “of” is so fundamental to the language that we can use it intuitively almost as soon as we start stringing sentences together.
A lot of English speakers probably don’t know that “of” is a preposition. Most of us couldn’t give a good definition for it. And most of us, if we ever looked it up in a dictionary, would struggle to understand what we were reading. For example, here’s the first definition of “of” in Merriam-Webster’s: “used as a function word to indicate a point of reckoning: ‘nort ....

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A Word, Please: Whet your grammar skills with this list of common terms people get wrong

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When I was a kid, I thought people struggled to “make En’s meat.” I didn’t know who En was someone from the Bible, most likely but I knew he was a carnivore who ran up big grocery bills. I was still young when I learned that, actually, you “make ends meet.”
Other terms took longer to get right. Well into adulthood I remained baffled as to why a fair-haired child was toe-headed. Toes come in a wide range of colors. So I didn’t see what they had to do with blondness. Eventually I learned it’s “towheaded.” This one doesn’t have the “Ah, that makes sense” quality of “make ends meet.” A grownup reading the term “towhead” could be forgiven for picturing a human head being dragged behind a AAA truck. Plus, with both Merriam-Webster’s and Webster’s New World in agreement that the preferred spelling of “towheaded” takes no hyphen, that same adult might understandably see the word on the page and hear in her mind’s ear “too-wee ....

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The Dorkiest, Wordiest Valentine's Day Gift You Could Ever Give

Taming the Tongue is a catalog that accompanies an exhibition of grammars. Sexy!
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Tim Rogers
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February 11, 2021
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First, you need to know who Bryan Garner is. He’s arguably the world’s greatest living lexicographer of the English language. I’m not sure the “arguably” hedge is needed. Most folks who write for a living have a copy of
Garner’s Modern American Usage close at hand. He also wrote
Garner’s Dictionary of Legal Usage, and he runs LawProse, a company that, among other things, teaches lawyers how to write more clearly.
D Magazineprofiled him in 2007, if you want to learn more (and you should). ....

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