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Evaluative Phrases: You Wazzock!

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Evaluative Phrases: You Wazzock!

A listener named Korgan Rivera writes:

I’ve been listening to Grammar Girl for a long time, but … can’t recall this question being answered before. In sentences like “What’s wrong with you, you idiot?” or “You genius! You’ve solved it!” what is the word ‘you’ doing in these sentences? [in the You idiot! and You genius! parts]

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09/01/2016 9:35pm
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Origin of ‘Loose as a Goose’

When I was writing about loose or lose, I used the phrase loose as a goose in a memory trick, and started wondering about the origin.
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09/01/2016 2:05pm
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'Loose' or 'Lose'?

People often ask me to help them remember the difference between the words loose and lose, and I confess that I see the wrong spellings so often that I sometimes have to remind myself which is which. I mean, I know, that loose with two O’s means “not tight” and lose with one O means the opposite of “win,” but when you see them ...Read More

09/01/2016 2:05pm
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