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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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Is It 'Hanger' or 'Hangar'?

 

How to remember which is which

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

 

Is it all the same anyway?

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Why did Yankee Doodle call a feather 'macaroni'?

 

What's with his feathered cap?

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Is there one standard way?

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