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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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A Look at Uncommon Onomatopoeia

 

Some imitative words are more surprising than others

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Pictures in the Dictionary

 

The story of those iconic illustrations.

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Why is there a 'd' in 'fridge' but not in 'refrigerator'?

 

Thawing one of the mysteries of English

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The True Story of the Backward Index

 

These people needed a computer

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Words of the Year: 1066

 

English was never the same after the Norman Conquest

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The Schwa

 

The most common vowel sound in English causes many spelling problems.