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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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When Body Parts Are Also Verbs

 

Head, shoulders, metaphors, and toes

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An Abbreviated History of American English Spelling

 

Soop, wimmen, and headake did not make the cut

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'All Intensive Purposes' or 'All Intents and Purposes'?

 

We're intent on clearing it up

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How to Remember 'Affect' and 'Effect'

 

A simple way to keep them apart. (Most of the time.)

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Old-School Grammar

 

Many of today's grammar rules can be traced to the opinions of one 18th century writer.

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How Do You Pronounce 'Groceries'?

 

Is there one standard way?

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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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Which Came First? Vol. 2 “Tighty-whities” or “loosey-goosey”? “J...
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