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Drive Safe: In Praise of Flat Adverbs

You don't have to end all your adverbs in -ly to talk right.


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Drive Safe: In Praise of Flat Adverbs

 

You don't have to end all your adverbs in -ly to talk right.

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'One in the same' or 'One and the same'?

 

Is it all the same anyway?

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How Do You Pronounce 'Vase'?

 

And is one way more correct than the others?

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What Is an Eggcorn?

 

And how did it get that name?

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Is It 'Attorney Generals' Or 'Attorneys General'?

 

'Poets laureate'? 'Court-martials'? The curious history of postpositive adjectives in English.

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Hot Mess

 

Our research turned up two archaic literal meanings