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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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'Everyday' vs. 'Every Day'

 

A simple trick to keep them separate

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Sneaked vs. Snuck

 

How the irregular 'snuck' sneaked into the dictionary

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Words of the Year: 1066

 

English was never the same after the Norman Conquest

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I vs. Me

 

'Between you and __'? Simple guidance for a tricky pronoun.

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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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A Look at Uncommon Onomatopoeia

 

Some imitative words are more surprising than others