How Badminton Got Its Name

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How Badminton Got Its Name 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. ...Read More 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. ...Read More 01/05/2017 11:42am     FROM QUICK AND DIRTY TIPS Get More Grammar Girl Visit the website. Subscribe to the Grammar Girl podcast at iTunes or via RSS. Find Grammar Girl books, gear, and more at the Quick and Dirty Tips store. Have Questions? Search the Quick and Dirty Tips website. We have more than 600 articles about grammar and language. There's a good chance your question has already been covered.                 Best wishes, (and the Quick and Dirty Tips Team)                 Want more tips? If this was forwarded to you by a friend and you'd like to receive future tips, you can sign up here. Please don't use the subscribe/unsubscribe link at the bottom of the page because this will overwrite your friend's subscription. (If this came directly to you, you can use the subscribe/unsubscribe link below to manage your subscription.)                 FOLLOW ME

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