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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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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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Further vs. Farther

 

They started as same word, but their meanings have drifted apart over time.

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What Is an Eggcorn?

 

And how did it get that name?

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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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Is It 'Hanger' or 'Hangar'?

 

How to remember which is which

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Webster's Dictionary of 1864

 

The landmark edition that transformed the way dictionaries are made.

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The History of 'Cynic'

 

How an ancient philosophical movement devoted to the pursuit of virtue came to describe eye-rolling criticism.