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Chapter 2 Word Choice
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healthy/healthful
"Healthy" and "healthful" DO NOT have the same meaning, at least
most of the time.
"Healthy" means "in good health."
v
HEALTHY reporters know better than to skip meals.
"Healthful" means "good FOR one's health."
v
Coming up, we'll have HEALTHFUL snack ideas for your kids.
Now, here's the exception.
"Healthy" can also means "good for one's health," in this context.
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We make sure our live photogs have a HEALTHY respect for
lightning.
Mrs. B ends the lesson with a quotation about how proper usage can
affect ratings:
"Language is the armory of the human mind and at once contains
the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests."
--Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet, critic, and philosopher (1772-
1834)
