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Pictures in the Dictionary

The story of those iconic illustrations.


The story of those iconic illustrations.

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Pictures in the Dictionary

 

The story of those iconic illustrations.

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An Abbreviated History of American English Spelling

 

Soop, wimmen, and headake did not make the cut

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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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Further vs. Farther

 

They started as same word, but their meanings have drifted apart over time.

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What is a malaprop?

 

We'll tell you all the perpendiculars

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How Do You Pronounce 'Vase'?

 

And is one way more correct than the others?

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When Body Parts Are Also Verbs

 

Head, shoulders, metaphors, and toes