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If You Can Be Disgruntled, Can You Be Gruntled?

If You Can Be Disgruntled, Can You Be Gruntled?

BrainStuff

May 14, 20227m 51s

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Some words like 'disgruntled' and 'ineffable' -- informally called lonely negatives -- don't have a positive counterpart in English. Learn how a few of them came to be in this episode of BrainStuff, based on this article: https://people.howstuffworks.com/lonely-negative.htm

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