I heard a landscape designer on an HGTV program refer to “creating a linkage” between a home and a potting shed.<\/p>\n
Problem:<\/strong> Explanation:<\/strong> When I heard the designer call the path itself a “linkage”, I wondered whether this was the appropriate noun and looked up “linkage” and “link” in a dictionary.<\/p>\n The noun “link” essentially means anything that connects two people, places, or things<\/em>.<\/p>\n The noun “linkage” essentially means one of the following:<\/p>\n I believe that some people use “linkage” when the noun “link” is appropriate because they want to sound more educated — and perhaps charge more for their services!<\/p>\n Solution:<\/strong> I heard a landscape designer on an HGTV program refer to “creating a linkage” between a home and a potting shed. Problem: These two nouns are not synonyms. Explanation: The landscape designer was referring simply to installing a paved path between the home and the shed. In other words, the path would connect the shed…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,15,4,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-common-english-blunders","category-nouns","category-verbs","category-versus"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nThese two nouns are not<\/em> synonyms.<\/p>\n
\nThe landscape designer was referring simply to installing a paved path between the home and the shed. In other words, the path would connect the shed with the home.<\/p>\n\n
\nUse “link” when referring to a connection between two people, places, or things. Use “linkage” when referring to the act of creating links or when referring to a system of links.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"