Speaker 1: Those old saints, phrases, idioms, You know, those things your
family and friends would say that usually came out of nowhere,
and only sometimes they actually made sense. Well, they had
to start somewhere, right, Who, what, where, why, when? And how?
Some of those old saints are not only ancient but
still carry a powerful punch today. I live by one
of those old saints. Winning is a choice. The goal
of these episodes is to help preserve not only a language,
but lessons in life. My name is arrow, supposedly versus supposedly.
Let me say that again, supposedly versus Supposedly. They sound
alike as if being the same word. But is there
a difference? Well, both are adverbs, but that's about all
they have in common. Supposedly implies that something is thought
to be true, but there might be a reason to
doubt it's truthfulness. In question. Supposedly suggests something is within
the realm of possibility. It's often used in a hypothetical
or speculative context, but is suposably a real word. Both
dictionary dot Com and chat gpt typed in supposedly twice
after I clearly said suppose ably. Supposedly is supposed to
be a real word, but there might be a reason
to doubt it, mainly because the search engines didn't go
directly to the word. Research shows we're using the word
supposedly absolutely wrong. Knowing the different definitions can clear things up.
For that matter, understanding word history could easily correct our
verbal word path supposedly made its way into our language
in the seventeenth century, but it didn't really become part
of our street speak until the nineteenth century. So how
are we supposed to simplify this situation? Here's the answer.
Don't use either one say allegedly supposedly versus supposably something
our parents would say, I'm marrow