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Demonyms: Why People from North Carolina Are Called Tar Heels. 'Healthy' Versus 'Healthful.' Sussies 3!

Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing

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Is Healthy Healthy?

The word healthy was being used to mean good for you in the late 18 hundreds. It is not a something that is stuck, it really hasn't. If you lookd at charts of usage, healthy just becomes asomtotic in those years. And, you know, healthful just stays, like, at a really low level.

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