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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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Words of the Year: 1066

 

English was never the same after the Norman Conquest

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What is a malaprop?

 

We'll tell you all the perpendiculars

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How Do You Pronounce 'Groceries'?

 

Is there one standard way?

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Further vs. Farther

 

They started as same word, but their meanings have drifted apart over time.

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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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The True Story of the Backward Index

 

These people needed a computer