If You Can Be Disgruntled, Can You Be Gruntled?
BrainStuff
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🗓️ 14 May 2022
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Some words like 'disgruntled' and 'ineffable' -- informally called lonely negatives -- don't have a positive counterpart in English. Learn how a few of them came to be in this episode of BrainStuff, based on this article: https://people.howstuffworks.com/lonely-negative.htm
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| 1:44.5 | When you've heard a word, like say, disgruntled, you might have asked yourself, |
| 1:49.3 | has anyone ever been just gruntled? Is it possible for one to gruntle? |
| 1:55.4 | Words like this, which are only used in the negative and not the positive, |
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