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How an ancient philosophical movement devoted to the pursuit of virtue came to describe eye-rolling criticism.
The most common vowel sound in English causes many spelling problems.
'Poets laureate'? 'Court-martials'? The curious history of postpositive adjectives in English.
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'Mischievous,' 'nuclear,' and other words to pronounce with caution.
