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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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Is 'none' singular or plural?

 

Or both? Or neither?

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Hopefully

 

We believe the popular usage of this word is correct

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How a Word Gets into the Dictionary

 

What our editors are looking for when they enter words in Merriam-Webster.

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What Is 'Semantic Bleaching'?

 

How 'literally' can mean "figuratively"

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Is It 'Hanger' or 'Hangar'?

 

How to remember which is which

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Words of the Year: 1066

 

English was never the same after the Norman Conquest