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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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When Body Parts Are Also Verbs

 

Head, shoulders, metaphors, and toes

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

 

Is it all the same anyway?

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What Is 'Semantic Bleaching'?

 

How 'literally' can mean "figuratively"

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Words of the Year: 1066

 

English was never the same after the Norman Conquest

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There, They're, Their

 

There, there. We'll sort it out.

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The Schwa

 

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

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