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Commonly Confused

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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On Contractions of Multiple Words

 

You all would not have guessed some of these

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There, They're, Their

 

There, there. We'll sort it out.

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What Is 'Semantic Bleaching'?

 

How 'literally' can mean "figuratively"

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Literally

 

A word that (literally) drives people nuts

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How a Ghost Word Appeared in the Dictionary

 

An imaginary word that snuck into the dictionary