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Drive Safe: In Praise of Flat Adverbs

You don't have to end all your adverbs in -ly to talk right.


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Drive Safe: In Praise of Flat Adverbs

 

You don't have to end all your adverbs in -ly to talk right.

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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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There, They're, Their

 

There, there. We'll sort it out.

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Pictures in the Dictionary

 

The story of those iconic illustrations.

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The Schwa

 

The most common vowel sound in English causes many spelling problems.

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The True Story of the Backward Index

 

These people needed a computer

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Is singular 'they' a better choice?

 

The awkward case of 'his or her'