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When should you use the term every day?
And how does it change when it becomes an adjective?
Or when you change it to every single day?
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Lindsay, I have a question for you.
Okay, go ahead. What's the question?
What is something you do every day?
Every day I take my dog for a walk because he needs to get out.
He needs the exercise and I need the exercise as well.
I need to move. Right, you do that every single day?
Basically, yes, every single day.
He needs to be out.
Yeah, he needs to get out.
It's quite a commitment having a dog.
We are answering a really interesting question about this the difference between every single day and every day and also every day we use two different ways.
I'm excited to dive into this today.
Yeah. What about you?
I agree. What is something in your daily routine that you do every day?
I wake my kids up for either school or sports every single day school days.
We're waking them up Saturdays and Sundays.
They have sports early in the morning, like always.
So every morning we're waking up early soon, they have to get their own alarm clocks so you don't have to, you know, right?
I like to wake them up with a snuggle and they're grumpy if they don't get like a little snuggle in the hall.
So until they won't let me snuggle them anymore.
I wake them up with a little morning snuggle.
I love that we're getting into a great I feel like a lot of students have this question.
Today's episode is inspired by a question.
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So Aubrey, shall we let our listeners know what the question is for today?
Yes, this was a question on YouTube.
It was from why TW n one VG.
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And the question was, what is the difference between every single day and every day?
Ooh, a great question.
It's a great question and important to start at this level, B2C1, we're starting to articulate this.
Like when you asked me that question, you do that every single day, I stopped and I was thinking, do I do it every single day?
Yes I do. Right. It's a different question in a way, it's furthering the conversation, kind of.
Exactly. So we're going to dive into both of these today with lots of examples and we're We're also adding the adjective every day, which is written slightly different, has a different meaning that we also use in English.
And we're also sharing a fun, interesting culture note about American culture and that word. We've got a lot of good stuff for today, so let's get right into it.
So when we separate and we say every day and it's two words, it's the adjective and noun.
What is, what are the scenarios here, Aubrey?
Now this just means each day.
So, for example, I have to do laundry every day, or it really piles up.
Love it. Or every day I try to do some kind of exercise.
Every day you take Kiefer for a walk.
Right? There are a lot of things that we do every day.
But what is really tricky is the second option.
We have the adjective every day that is written as one word and it means common, ordinary routine or common, ordinary or routine.
So for example, if you're going dress shopping, you might say this is kind of an ordinary everyday dress I'm looking for something chic something special.
So here it doesn't mean each day.
It means common not unique Yes an everyday dress and you know to be honest a lot of native speakers make the mistake and they'll write Every day dress as two words, they treat it the same way often they don't know that it's brought together as one word. Every common native speaker is spelling mistake.
Absolutely. Right. They realize when they're saying it that it has a different meaning, but they might not realize that it's written slightly differently.
Exactly. So by knowing this guys, you'll be ahead of the game ahead of probably 50 or 60 % of native speakers.
Right. Maybe more. Oh my gosh.
And we want to share a fun culture note here.
This word every day, sometimes you'll hear the phrase every day.
People always just means like normal average people, common people, right?
It is a very famous song that was written in 1968 and performed by Sly and the Family Stone.
You probably have heard this song but the lyrics were actually really powerful especially at the time in 1968 in the U .S. There was a lot of discrimination, a lot of racism and these lyrics were a very powerful message.
You know some of the words it says, I am everyday people.
So to use it in that way, right, not saying we, we are everyday people say I am everyday people.
And it was saying like, I'm no better than you and neither are you, we are the same.
Whatever we do. It was a message against discrimination and racism.
Yeah. I never knew kind of where that song came from or the backstory behind it.
So I'm it's kind of cool to know this Aubrey.
I know I didn't really either I hadn't thought about it.
heard this song a million times.
And then when I was looking up, what are some of the interesting ways we use every day besides just everyday dress, everyday clothing?
And not only that, the bridges of the song contain the line different strokes for different folks.
That lyric has become a popular catchphrase.
I still hear it now.
I'll hear people say that if people disagree, it's another way to say agree to disagree.
Just to say, different strokes for different folks." And often people will just say, different strokes, right?
We shorten those expressions.
And then there was that TV show and when did that TV show come out?
Did it come out in 1969 or was it later?
Do you know? It was a little bit later, but this catchphrase, it did inspire the television series, Different Strokes.
I believe it came out in the seventies.
Did you ever watch them show?
I haven't, no, but I think I know You'll have to check it out.
And it will be fun for our listeners to see it.
It really is an interesting window into US culture and kind of awesome that it inspired that show.
Yeah. It's really cool to start with music, music from a certain time period.
Then, look at the lyrics and go backward of what was happening in the US at that time or the world.
Then learn key vocabulary.
Very cool. Yeah. And awesome to see what vocabulary it inspired that is now part of our vernacular.
You'll hear it pretty often.
Amazing. Okay. So, that is just a little culture note.
Love it. Do we want to move on to when we say every single day?
I mean, when you said that to me, I questioned whether I was with my telling the truth here.
Yes, I do. You know, because this is emphasizing or expressing either surprise that something happens every day or just emphasizing that it does happen every single day, right?
Yes, exactly. So for example, every single day I have to do laundry or it will pile up.
Yeah. And this is the same example I used with every day, day.
But if I'm wanting to emphasize that I cannot miss a day, then I would say every single day I have to do laundry.
Yeah. Or do you check the mail every single day?
I check mine maybe once a week.
Yeah. Wow. And the intonation is interesting.
You can just be like, do you check your mail every single day?
But we often will emphasize with our intonation as well.
Like, do you check the mail every single day?
Sort of slow down to emphasize.
Yeah, and that's when people, yeah, they think a bit more, right.
Do you do that every single day?
Right. This idea of exercising, maybe lifting weights or something.
Taking a vitamin. Those are things.
Right. I'm curious about this for you.
Actually, I check my mail maybe what maybe even once every other week, once a month.
Are you serious? Oh, what about you?
Check your mail. I take my mail every day for sure.
Oh yeah. Don't get much in the mail that I need.
Right? All bills are online.
I don't get like letters.
It's just junk mail.
So sometimes I'll actually get a notice from the post office.
It's like you have to pick up your mail at the post office because your mailbox was too full and we couldn't fit anything else in there.
That's so funny. I'm not… I try not do that at least. That's a huge inconvenience for them.
I don't know. Maybe I'm old school.
I still get excited about checking the mail.
It's right outside of our door.
It's like so easy. Maybe that's the difference.
It helps ours way down the street.
Unless your mail talks way down the street.
I don't have time for that.
Yeah, I know. I love checking the mail.
It's fun, a little.
What is it? What's going to be there.
Right? Yeah. It's a little present, hopefully, if you ever get anything good.
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Okay, Aubrey, we're back for a role play.
So here we are at a dog park.
Makes sense. Makes sense.
Let's start us out.
Yeah. Hey, fancy seeing you here hi I love this park do you come here often I bring Kiefer every day and I don't think we've ever seen you yeah well I don't come every single day but pretty often I don't have a dog but I like to come and watch them play I get it dogs have so much joy and energy it's a fun everyday activity to just walk over here and hang out yeah sometimes it's a little creepy it's a little creepy when we're in the dog park is it a little creepy uh sometimes realize there's someone in the dog park that doesn't have a dog or what's happening here.
I'm envisioning because where I live, a lot of the dog parks are right by a kid's playground.
So like I've taken my kids to the playground and they're old enough.
I don't really need to supervise them.
So I'll like watch the dogs playing.
But on your side though, I totally understand that there's nothing more joyful than watching dogs play.
So that would be of creepy too just be like hanging out in the dog park without it.
You're like the dog mom.
You're like, what are you doing here?
Don�t steal my dog.
Exactly. All right.
This is good. So I said, Hey, do you come here often?
I bring key for every day and I don't think we've ever seen you.
And I love how I'm saying because I'm talking from the perspective of me and my dog.
Love that. I think you would say that actually we come here every day, me and my dog, I probably would.
And then what did you say?
I said, well, I don't come every single day.
So because you're saying I come every day, I'm sort of trying to emphasize like, I come most days, but not every single day.
Love it, love it. And again, slowing down.
Well, I don't come every single day, right?
The intonation, the delivery feels different, right?
Exactly. And it's interesting to look at why you would maybe have said every day like you often will say every day when maybe we actually do that four or five times a week, Max, right?
We don't really every single day sometimes when we say every day.
Yeah, I think the minimum would be four to five times a week to say every day, right?
Not gonna say if you do something once a week, you wouldn't say, I do this every day or even two or three, but if it's four or five, you cross over into pretty much every day.
Right? Yeah, we're exaggerating.
Pretty much to exaggerate.
Oh yeah, big thing in American English.
And then I said, I get it.
Dogs have so much joy and energy isn't that true right?
it's a fun everyday activity and here we're using this as an adjective and we're bringing or we're making one word every day it's written as one word every day and here it means common just like a routine activity and everyday activity something you do all the time.
Yeah, and important to note the difference in intonation when I have it as two words versus an adjective with one word I bring Kiefer every day, right, versus it's a fun, everyday activity.
Every day, it's true.
We squish them together more.
It would be very strange here to pause to say it's a fun every day activity, because it's one word, there's no space between them.
So we run it together more.
Yeah. And like we said earlier, if you can master just this piece about every day as an adjective, and one word, you'll be ahead of at least 50 % of native speakers.
Okay. So it comes to writing.
Yeah. Yes. And luckily, it's not written very often, which is why a lot of native English speakers don't realize that.
They don't see it written very much, right?
Yeah. That's true. But it's true, now that you know that, you've got a leg up on a lot of native English speakers.
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Yeah, these words every day can be tricky because it has two different meanings that are written slightly differently.
And then of course you can add single to emphasize or express surprise, but these are really fun to connect in English to share.
What do you do every single day and why?
Yeah, we've been talking a lot about sharing our morning routines.
Michelle and I did a series on morning routines, evening routines.
This kind of falls into that category of connection around everyday activities.
It's not, it is mundane but it's not because you learn what you have in common with people.
Absolutely. It's interesting.
I love, I asked people this a lot.
But something you do every single day, what do you do every morning?
What's the first thing you do when you get up?
We can learn so much about people.
So good for contesting.
Yeah. Love it. All right.
Aubrey, we'll see you back on here very soon.
Have a good one. See you next time.
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