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It seems "marinate" and "marinade" are often misused. Marinate is a verb and marinade is a noun. I marinate my chicken in a citrus marinade. I'm not lecturing, I'm just reinforcing my own understanding.
The problem there is Americans who pronounce a t in the middle of a word as a d. There's plenty of 'em. No wonder confusion abounds.
Pardy instead of party, udder instead of utter, etc.
"There's abit of an upswing going in Newark and its surrounding neighborhoods.... at least 15 projects with another 40 in the pipeline for the not to distance future. The Ironbound is also seeing numerous abet smaller projects going up."
In an era when so many people believe that "a lot" is now one non-word, I guess it was inevitable that "a bit" would also morph into one non-word. The confusion about "not too distant" is a mistake that I have never seen previously, and I am assuming that "abet" is supposed to be "albeit".
As I mentioned in an earlier post, at my last job, a few of the younger employees asked me to help them with their writing--which I had to review on a fairly constant basis in order to do my job. One bright-eyed young woman was almost incredulous when I diplomatically pointed out that "alot" is not a word. In order to reinforce the concept, I said, "Try to remember that 'a little' consists of two words, and that should help you to remember that 'a lot' is also two words.
A few weeks later, as I was paging through her most recent report, she barged into my office and chirped, "Did you notice that I remembered what you said?" I asked her for clarification, and she turned to the last page of her report, where she proudly pointed to her use of "alittle" in a key sentence.
That ended my attempts at education in that office.
I think the poster meant swollen. The phrasing of the post itself makes me think the poster is not in the US and English may not be the first language.
There is only a handful of places in the solar system thought to have subsurface oceans.
This was not a blogger, but an actual writer for CNN.
The problem is that CNN fired their entire science dept. years ago. That's why they do so many round-robin interviews when it comes to technical issues - the loss of the Malaysia Boeing 777, the difficulties of tracking/interpreting the various signals, the problems with working out rough locations for a first look-see, the problems with mapping the ocean depths, and on and on.
Yes, subsurface ocean isn't a bad phrase - they just need to explain that probably the surface is ice (likely not water ice, but one thing at a time), floating atop the liquid. Subterranean sounds wrong, as we're not talking about Earth. Ocean might be a misnomer too, if we're talking about moons - ocean implies planetary-size bodies of water, like Earth's oceans. See A 'club sandwich' may support life on Jupiter's moon Ganymede - an article at CNN Tech (sorry, couldn't copy the URL).
The problem is that CNN fired their entire science dept. years ago. That's why they do so many round-robin interviews when it comes to technical issues - the loss of the Malaysia Boeing 777, the difficulties of tracking/interpreting the various signals, the problems with working out rough locations for a first look-see, the problems with mapping the ocean depths, and on and on.
Yes, subsurface ocean isn't a bad phrase - they just need to explain that probably the surface is ice (likely not water ice, but one thing at a time), floating atop the liquid. Subterranean sounds wrong, as we're not talking about Earth. Ocean might be a misnomer too, if we're talking about moons - ocean implies planetary-size bodies of water, like Earth's oceans. See A 'club sandwich' may support life on Jupiter's moon Ganymede - an article at CNN Tech (sorry, couldn't copy the URL).
Er, I thought the issue was There is only a handful of places vs There are only a handful of places ..."
But which is used appears to depend on context, whether the emphasis is on handful: A handful is ...
or on places:
A handful of places are ...
Subsurface oceans appear to be a recognized phenomenon.
The problem there is Americans who pronounce a t in the middle of a word as a d. There's plenty of 'em. No wonder confusion abounds.
Pardy instead of party, udder instead of utter, etc.
Almost all Americans pronounce the words that way. We also use "are" instead of "is" for plurals. ; )
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