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'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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How 'literally' can mean "figuratively"

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'One in the same' or 'One and the same'?

 

Is it all the same anyway?

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