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A Militant Grammarian Quiz About Language Shorthand

KUAF | By Kyle Kellams
Published September 1, 2020 at 1:00 PM CDT
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Our Militant Grammarian, Katherine Shurlds, gives us a quiz regarding metonymy: the use of the name of one thing to represent something related to that thing. Think "the crown" used to represent the monarcy.

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Kyle Kellams
Kyle Kellams is KUAF's news director and host of Ozarks at Large.
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