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

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

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

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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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Why did Yankee Doodle call a feather 'macaroni'?

 

What's with his feathered cap?

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We believe the popular usage of this word is correct

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What Is 'Semantic Bleaching'?

 

How 'literally' can mean "figuratively"

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'Mispronunciations' That May Be Fine

 

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Ending a Sentence with a Preposition

 

An old-fashioned rule we can no longer put up with.

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