embiggenning is the right word today
"Burgeoning" is one of those words that doesn't occur in spoken English. You only see it when people switch into their fancy writing diction. It's getting real big, they think. But I can't say that. I know, I'll say that it's burgeoning.
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Ba-looning
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Now that you say that, I don't think I even know how I'd pronounce it, with a soft or hard g.
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Definitely soft.
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I think 'bigly' sounds better than 'burgeoning'...
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To systematically find more written-not-spoken words & phrases, one could compare podcast transcripts to blogs and books.
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I thought I was a plain-spoken writer before but it was helpful to explicitly use your rule of not writing anything I wouldn't say out loud.
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Haven’t encountered this rule before but it’s perfect. And I’m not sure how intentional it was on your part, but I’m fascinated by how “plain-spoken” can be used as a literal description of such writing: writing as plainly as you actually speak.
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