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“I'm Lauren Smith and would you ever step foot into a restaurant that smelled like dead raccoon? Of course you wouldn't, but probably not for the reason you think. You'd never step foot anywhere, because what you mean is set foot.”From the transcript
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Grammar Minute — Escaped Goat. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.
Welcome to the grammar Minute, where we're saving the English language 60 seconds at a time. I'm Lauren Smith and would you ever step foot into a restaurant that smelled like dead raccoon? Of course you wouldn't, but probably not for the reason you think. You'd never step foot anywhere, because what you mean is set foot. That's set not step. A whole nother problem is the invention and subsequent abuse of the word another, which is in fact not a word. That's a whole other topic. I have a sneaky suspicion, excuse me, sneaking suspicion. There are quite a lot of commonly abused phrases besides the ones I've mentioned here. Do you ever encounter an escape goat when you're looking for escape goat? Let's nip this in the butt, in the bud, before things get out of hand. This is your grammar Minute. Visit thegrammerminute.com for more tips and tricks.
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