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Grammar Girl here. I'm Minion Fokrty and you can think of me as your friendly guide to the English language.

We talk about writing, history, rules and other cool stuff. This week we'll look at all the ways

TV has influenced our language and tell you the secret rule for when to use more and most

versus suffixes. New expressions are introduced into our everyday language all the time and the more we use them,

the more they become ingrained in our speech throughout the generations. And because we spend so much

time watching TV, it's a huge contributor to how we use language. In fact, according to Nielsen,

we in the US are watching more TV than ever, an average of 153 hours every month.

So it's not surprising that many words, phrases and even speech patterns from TV have made their way

into our day-to-day language. Some of these words and expressions are completely made up by our

favorite TV characters or more accurately the writers behind them. Think Doe from the Simpsons or

Friend Zone from Friends. In other cases, the show itself inspired a word, the way the 1980s and 1990s

TV show McGyver, which featured an incredibly resourceful secret agent who seemed like he could fix

almost anything with duct tape, led to McGyver being used as a verb as in hold on and all McGyver

that broken chair. And other times, a TV show popularized the use of an existing word in a new way,

as is likely the case for googling things. Although googling goes back to 1998,

Buffy the Vampire Slayer gave it a big boost when Willow used it in the 2002 episode.

It's supposedly the first time the word was used as a verb on TV, and it was so new they actually

had to explain what it meant. The thing is, some of these expressions have become so ingrained in

our language that we start to think they've been around forever and forget where they came from.

Well, according to how stuff works, there are several different ways in which we use language from

TV. The first is jargon, which the website defines as quote, the language used by a specific group

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