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Is It 'Attorney Generals' Or 'Attorneys General'?

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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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A Look at Uncommon Onomatopoeia

 

Some imitative words are more surprising than others

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'Mischievous,' 'nuclear,' and other words to pronounce with caution.

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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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