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Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing

663 - D-Day. Why I Want a Salad-Salad.

Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing

Mignon Fogarty, Inc.

Society & Culture, Education

4.52.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2019

⏱️ 13 minutes

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0:00.0

Gramer Girl here, I'm Minyon Fogarty and you can think of me as your friendly guide to

0:09.0

the English language.

0:10.9

We had a little schedule in English, so today I have a regular show, a tidbit about the

0:15.6

origin of D-Day and a meaty middle about re-duplication.

0:19.6

You'll even get to hear me moo like a cow.

0:22.8

And then Thursday I'm going to have an interview, a fabulous interview that I think you're

0:27.5

going to love with Benjamin Dreyer, the author of the brand new New York Times bestseller

0:32.9

Dreyer's English.

0:37.2

The 75th anniversary of D-Day is coming up in just a few months, and that made me think

0:42.5

about the origins of the word D-Day.

0:45.4

Why do we call it D-Day?

0:47.9

Which is the D-Stand for?

0:50.6

Let's start by getting one thing out of the way.

0:53.4

D-Day doesn't actually refer to a single date in history.

0:58.4

The military term D-Day is actually a generic term that can refer to any day on which a

1:04.5

particular plan of attack occurs.

1:07.8

Over time the word has become shorthand for the daring 1944 allied invasion of Normandy

1:13.9

during World War II, and know the D-D doesn't stand for daring.

1:19.4

The origins of the word date back to at least World War I, when an American field order

1:24.8

wrote in 1918, quote, the first army will attack at H-hour on D-Day with the object of

1:32.1

forcing the evacuation of the Sun-Mahal salient.

1:36.6

So what's the D-Stand for?

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