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Khoff Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary

I am hard-of-hearing.

It just struck me what an odd phrase "hard-of-hearing" is. There are no parallels; we don't say someone is "hard-of-seeing" or "hard-of-walking" if they don't see very well or have trouble walking. I wonder where it came from.

(I am, in fact, hard-of-hearing, so I use it a lot. But it's strange.)
  

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Here are some thoughts about it. com/2011/09/hard-of-hearing /

— Clive

  • Here are some thoughts about it.
  • com/2011/09/hard-of-hearing /
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