Category: The English Language
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Recalling a Word on the Tip of Your Tongue Helps Ensure You’ll Forget It Next Time
Written by Ashley Hamer Have you ever noticed that there are some words you can never remember? Like, that word that means “improve” but starts with an A? We’re pretty sure...
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There’s a Word for the Fear That All Laughter Is at Your Expense
Written by Joanie Faletto Laughter is the best medicine. Unless, that is, laughter is what’s plaguing you in the first place. For gelotophobics, a mild to severe aversion to chuckling is their...
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What does it mean to Read?
To live fully means to be continually disturbed, both intellectually and emotionally. You may remember that someone described was as “long periods of unutterable boredom punctuated by short moments of...
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Grammar Nazis can cede the high ground. These five grammatical ‘errors’ are not errors at all
We’re all entitled to our grammatical preferences – but grammar itself does not care about them one bit. Mar 16, 2020 · 05:30 pm Michelle Sheehan, The Conversation People get...
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The One Letter in the Alphabet That Can’t Be Silent
by Michele Debczak The English language can be baffling at times—just look to words like phlegm, receipt, and chthonic for proof. Silent letters are unavoidable. Almost every word in the alphabet is occasionally guilty...
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HILARIOUS NEW YORK SLANG ONLY LOCALS UNDERSTAND
by Max Langridge Think you know your dogs from dawgs? You may just fit in with New York locals. Head to any major city in the world and you’ll be...