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You're listening to a way with words to show about language and how we use it. I'm Grant Barrett.

And I'm Martha Barnett. If you need proof that rules about usage and grammar change over time,

just take a look at some of the books by language mavens from the late 19th century.

Writers like Richard Grant White, who was a prominent Shakespearean scholar,

and another guy named C. W. Bardeen who wrote a book called Verbal

Pitt Falls a manual of 1500 words commonly misused. For example one of the things that stopped me in my tracks when I was reading

is that both of those writers disdain the term campaign when you're talking about a presidential campaign.

Why?

Because it's appropriating military language.

They're saying that the word that you should use is contest

rather than campaign because that's associated with the military.

White wrote that using campaign in that way is inflamed newspaper English

masquerading his eloquence and And then he went on and said,

I know, right?

Even though I don't agree with the rule, I do like that.

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