word choice - Difference between "commentor" and …
A commentator commentates events (like sport games on radio and TV) according to attributed time slot. That's why he has to fill with words the pauses in games, events, etc. A commenter, on the contrary, comments. He is not obliged to maintain a word flow.
Why do we say 'commentator' instead of 'commenter'?
A commentator is more than a commenter. Traditionally, a commentator is someone who reports the affairs of the day - a pundit. A "commenter" would be a person making an observation, e.g., "Oh look, it's raining." The word "commentator" may offer a sense of being a portmanteau of "comment" with "orator" or "pontificator."
The term "color man" for sports announcers [closed]
2016年7月22日 · Tara Lipinski, the former ice skating star, is a well-regarded color commentator in her sport. From Wikipedia--The term color refers to levity and insight provided by a secondary announcer. A sports color commentator customarily works alongside the play-by …
What do you call who writes comments? Commenter or …
I'm not keen on the choices offered. A commentator is one who gives on-the-scene reports of news events (whether recorded video or live tv). A person who writes comments (here, I believe we're talking about periodicals) is usually referred to as a 'columnist'. E.g., the UK Telegraph online has their columnists listed under the heading 'commentary'.
Is there an idiom/phrase similar to "commentator's curse", but …
2016年2月27日 · a Cricket player hitting a six immediately after the commentator says that he has the highest number of sixes for his team. Or . a Football (Soccer) player scoring from way outside the D-box just when the commentator says that the player had scored from a similar distance in the previous game.
grammaticality - Is "a whole nother" grammatical? - English …
2015年5月21日 · Actually, this is an example of what's called "tmesis". It is the insertion of a word into another word. In "a whole nother" the "a" and the "-nother" go together and the "whole" is slotted between them.
orthography - What’s the rule for adding “-er” vs. “-or” when …
2014年12月9日 · This has been previously touched on here: “Commentor” vs “Commentator”. I'll try to expand on that. I'll try to expand on that. Both -er and -or are so-called "agent noun suffixes", and Wiktionary has entries for both:
Origin of the idiom "If ifs and buts were candy and nuts"?
The aphorism was coined by the Dallas Cowboys quarterback, Don Meredith, who later became a sports commentator for the TV show Monday Night Football in 1970. 17 December 1970, Ada (OK) Evening News, pg. 7, col. 1: Howard Cosell: “If Los Angeles wins, it’s a big one, but San Francisco is still very much in it.”
How did the term "to favor" come to signify a limp?
2013年5月16日 · The OED has this use of the verb favour dating back to the 16th century:. 7. To deal gently with; to avoid overtasking (a limb); to ease, save, spare.
What's the difference between "requester" and "requestor"?
Both are in dictionaries. I've heard people insist "requester" is correct for a person who requests something, and that "requestor" is wrong there, leaving me to wonder how it i...