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Bookmark or Share- Which is correct: "troubleshooted" or "troubleshot"?"A TV commentator recently referred to a new software package as having been troubleshooted. Does a suitable past-tense verb exist for something that has undergone a troubleshooting process?" Here, too, we have a back-formation: troubleshooter was the original word.
- Origin of the idiom "If ifs and buts were candy and nuts"?The aphorism was coined by the Dallas Cowboys quarterback, Don Meredith, who later became a sports commentator for the TV show Monday Night Football in 1970. 17 December 1970, Ada (OK) Evening News, pg. 7, col. 1: Howard Cosell: “If Los Angeles wins, it’s a big one, but San Francisco is still very much in it.”
- word choice - English Language & Usage Stack ExchangeAs another commentator mentioned, often it is possible to rewrite in such a way as to avoid both. For example: When the stakes are high, cheating is more likely.
- Is it CoViD? Or COVID? Covid? How should the word be spelled?An influential British commentator once suggested (with little success on his side of the Atlantic) that the lowercasing be avoided: "From the full name to the simplified label three stages can be detected. For instance, the Society {for Checking the Abuse of Public Advertising} ... becomes first S.C.A.P.A., then SCAPA, and finally Scapa. In ...
- word choice - Difference between "commentor" and "commentator ...A commentator commentates events (like sport games on radio and TV) according to attributed time slot. That's why he has to fill with words the pauses in games, events, etc. A commenter, on the contrary, comments. He is not obliged to maintain a word flow.
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