Grimmer Girl here, I'm Minion Focardy and you can think of me as your friendly guide to

the English language. We talk about writing, history, rules, and cool stuff. Today we'll

talk about the phrase, to coin a phrase, should you ever use it. And we'll talk about the

difference between a dose and a dosage. But before we get started, I have an announcement,

a correction and a quick answer to a question. First, I got to be a guest on an audio

drama I've been enjoying called Oz9, which is really much more of a space comedy. So if

you want to hear about Grimmer Girl's Adventures in Space, check out episode 53 of the podcast

Oz9. Second, thank you to Joe from Kinderhook, New York, who pointed out that I said Martin

Van Buren's nickname wrong last week in the segment about the word okay. I said Van Buren

was known as old Kinderhooks, but it was actually old Kinderhook, singular, just like

the name of the town, old Kinderhook. And finally, after reading the piece about the different

spellings of okay, Julie asked where we get A-OK. What's the story there? Well, Edmund

Lines says that A-OK arose in 1961 from astronaut jargon, meaning all systems okay, the A being

short for all systems. So that's an interesting little story, especially since as I'm recording

this today, NASA is getting ready to land the Perseverance Rover on Mars. This next segment

is by Brenda Thomas, so when I say I and me, that's her. Have you ever coined a phrase?

How you answer that question depends on what you think it means to coin a phrase. However,

what you think it means might not be what someone else thinks it means, even though both

of you are correct in what you think it means. Confused? Well, so was I. I always thought

that to coin a phrase meant to create or invent a new saying. One example would be when Thomas

Kuhn in his book from 1962, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, coined the phrase

paradigm shift, that has since become part of our everyday vocabulary. Other examples

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