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Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing

537 GG "Further" Versus "Farther." Horse's Mouth

Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing

Mignon Fogarty, Inc.

Society & Culture, Education

4.52.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2016

⏱️ 11 minutes

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0:00.0

Grimmer Girl here. I'm Minion Fagrity and this week I have a big correction from last week,

0:11.5

a meeting middle about further versus farther, a tidbit about the idiom straight from the

0:16.9

horse's mouth and some featured listeners. And now the correction that everyone in New

0:22.1

York will be happy to hear. Last week I said that the abbreviation Soho stood for South

0:28.7

of Houston Street. But even though the street name is spelled like the city in Texas,

0:33.9

it's actually pronounced Howston. I've been a West Coast girl my whole life, but I got the impression

0:39.9

that New Yorkers hate people calling it Houston Street, as much as San Francisco's hate it when

0:45.5

people call their city Frisco, or people in Nevada hate it when someone calls our state Nevada,

0:52.0

which is a lot. So sorry New Yorkers. But then I started wondering why it's pronounced differently

0:59.3

and it turns out the street and the city are named after two different people who pronounced

1:05.0

their names differently. The city in Texas is named after Sam Houston and the street in New York

1:12.1

is named after William Howston. William Howston was a well-known lawyer and politician from Georgia

1:19.4

in the late 1700s and was a delegate to the US Constitutional Convention. A street in New York

1:26.6

is named after him because he married a woman from a prominent New York family and the street was

1:32.0

originally on that family's estate. William spelled his last name, H-O-U-S-T-O-U-N, which was how

1:40.7

the street name was originally spelled to, but at some point along the way the name lost its

1:45.7

U and became identical in spelling to the city name in Texas. But it's pronounced Howston.

1:53.2

Sam Houston lived a bit later and is famous for his military role in an 1836 battle that forced

2:01.0

Mexico to grant Texas its independence, which led the way to Texas becoming part of the United

2:06.7

States in 1845. A lot of listeners had interesting things to say on Twitter about pronunciation.

2:14.8

Eric wrote, amazingly, the New York way is how Google's driving directions pronounce it too,

2:20.3

and this is in Texas. That's blasphemy down here. Yeah, I bet it is. And a bunch of people

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