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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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Its vs. It's

 

Some practical guidance, and interesting history, about a common mistake.

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What Is 'Semantic Bleaching'?

 

How 'literally' can mean "figuratively"

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

 

Is it all the same anyway?

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I vs. Me

 

'Between you and __'? Simple guidance for a tricky pronoun.

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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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Some Odd Words with ISMO: "The One-derful Won"

 

Comedian ISMO tries to figure out 'one' and 'two'

Games & Quizzes

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Play Quordle: Guess all four words in a limited number of tries. Each of your guesses must be a real 5-letter word.
Quordle Can you solve 4 words at once?
Play Blossom: Solve today's spelling word game by finding as many words as you can using just 7 letters. Longer words score more points.
Blossom Pick the best words!
Play Missing Letter: a crossword with a twist. Each of the 25 puzzle words start with a different letter of the alphabet. Which letter is missing?
The Missing Letter A daily crossword with a twist
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Dutch, Yiddish, Japanese, or Hindi? Quiz Guess the language these English words come from.
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