Apparently, Merriam-Webster's #Dictionary hyphenates the word mm-hmm "used to indicate agreement, satisfaction, or encouragement to continue speaking." I'm wondering how folks at the Chicago Manual of Style and Associated Press feel about that. I'm also curious if or when mm-hmm will go the way of "email" and other previously hyphenated primary spellings.

#Language #EnglishIsHard #EnglishIsWeird

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mm-hmm

@sirsean @DocCarms #englishisweird language and it has taken me a long time to tell the difference. There are still some words I don't know the difference of so I avoid them. Then there are words like inflammable and flammable which mean the same thing! #englishlanguage #englishishard English makes absolutely no sense. #writerproblems #writing #writer

I have mixed feeling that "a part" means one of a whole and "apart" means separated. I feel like it should be reversed. #writing #englishisweird #englishlanguage like just why?

TIL that English is the only Indo-European language in Europe without grammatical gender. #aceswebinar #EnglishIsWeird

I've fallen into using a phrase lately that I think should be used more in English, to be "tired about" something. Usually, at least in areas I've lived, we are "sad about" something or "tired of" something. But I'm not tired *of* the pandemic or housing shortages or insect collapse. That just doesn't capture the tone of my feelings toward those things. It's much more precise to say that I am tired about them, the same way I am sad about them.

As you were.

#language #EnglishIsWeird

Before was was was, was was is.

#englishisweird
#englishishard

Why is the plural of iris not ires? Why???

#gardening #florespondence #iris #grammar #EnglishIsWeird

Weird they gross, cross, and dross don’t really rhyme. At least where I live. #englishisweird

"I don't want to throw tough dough through troughs though, thoughts?"

#language #tongueTwister #EnglishIsWeird

George the giraffe gently jumped over jellyfish, but Greg the gopher got stung.

#EnglishIsWeird