This week's Radiolab podcast was about a strange Olympic badminton match in which both teams were trying to lose instead of trying to win. It was a great story, but at the beginning, Mike Pesca made a big deal about how the game is badminton, not badmitten as many people say, as though you're scolding a cat.
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01/05/2017 9:05pm
'Enormity' or 'Enormousness'?
Traditionally, usage guides said that enormousness described something huge, and enormity described something overwhelmingly horrible. Yet, today, enormity is also regularly used to describe something of staggering hugeness. Some people call this an error and some people call it language change.
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01/05/2017 11:42am
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