Grammar Girl - Episode 340 - Ghost Words | Текст песни

• Тексты песен
• Grammar Girl - Episode 340
• Ghost Words

Read and listen this grammar tip online:
http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/ghost-words.aspx

More grammar tips: http://vk.com/learning_english

In 1886, a lexicographer named Walter Skeat first used the phrase “ghost words” to describe words that he said had “no real existence.” Ghost words are words that weren’t real to begin with—they came about because of an error or misunderstanding—but they made it into the dictionary anyway.