654 - 'Stint' or 'Stent'? How to Pronounce 'Coyote.'

Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing

Mignon Fogarty, Inc.

Society & Culture, Education

4.5 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2019

⏱️ 14 minutes

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This week, I give you a memory trick--based on an amazing story from history--for remembering the difference between "stint" and "stent," and we look at why people pronounce "coyote" at least five different ways. FOLLOW GRAMMAR GIRL YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/grammargirl Twitter: http://twitter.com/grammargirl Facebook: http://facebook.com/grammargirl Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/realgrammargirl Instagram: http://instagram.com/thegrammargirl LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/grammar-girl GRAMMAR POP iOS GAME Optimized for iPad: http://bit.ly/GrammarPopiPad For iPad and iPhone: http://bit.ly/GrammarPop GRAMMAR GIRL BOOKS http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/grammar-girl-book-page GRAMMAR GIRL IS PART OF THE QUICK AND DIRTY TIPS PODCAST NETWORK.

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0:00.0	[♪ INTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:04.6	Grammar girl here, I'm Minyeon Fokerti, and welcome to New Listeners.
0:08.4	In this podcast, I give you tips and memory tricks to help you with some of the trickier
0:13.2	rules and words in English.
0:15.9	And I also like to tell you stories about interesting things I dig up along the way.
0:21.0	Think of me as your fun guide to the English language and how people use it.
0:26.2	This week I have a quick and dirty tip about the difference between the words stint and
0:30.7	stint.
0:31.7	And a meaty middle about how to pronounce coyote.
0:34.8	Or is that coyote?
0:36.1	Or something else?
0:37.4	We'll figure it out.
0:38.6	[♪ INTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:40.6	A listener named Elizabeth wrote,
0:42.6	Would you please cover the proper use of stint and stint?
0:47.1	I'm so sick of people asking about the three stints in one of my arteries that I really
0:52.0	believe my head will explode the next time it happens.
0:56.0	Well, we wouldn't want that to happen.
0:58.3	When I started doing research, both of these words surprised me.
1:02.8	In my whole life, I've only heard stint used to mean something like an assignment or a
1:08.5	set amount of time.
1:10.6	As in, I did a stint as a sailmaker in Seattle, but it didn't suit me.
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